'Rishi Kapoor no more': Amitabh Bachchan announces on Twitter

After Irrfan Khan Bollywood has lost another gem that is Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passes away at the age 67 after a two-year-long battle with cancer. Announcing the sad news Amitabh Bachchan took to his Twitter handle and wrote, “ He’s gone..! Rishi Kapoor.. gone.. just passed away.. I am destroyed!”

The legendary actor breathed his last at the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai while his wife actress Neetu Kapoor was by his side.

Rishi’s hospitalisation was confirmed by his elder brother, actor Randhir Kapoor. “It’s true that he has been admitted to the hospital. He is in Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital. He was not keeping well and had some problem, so we admitted him early this morning,” Randhir had said on Wednesday evening. Asked if it was an emergency, Randhir said: “That’s why he has gone to the hospital. But I know that he will be alright. Neetu (Kapoor) is by his side.”

In 2018, the actor was diagnosed with cancer following which the actor was in New York for more than a year for treatment. After recovering from cancer he returned to India in September 2019.