After Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor had recently shared that his uncle Randhir Kapoor is going through an early stage of dementia‘, Randhir has now denied the statement. When asked why Ranbir would say something like this, the veteran actor said, “Ranbir ki marzi.”
In an interview, Randhir affirmed that he is perfectly fine, and had COVID-19 some time ago. He said, “Aisa kuch nahi hua. Not at all. I am perfectly fine.” He added that he was recently in Goa with filmmaker Rahul Rawail. “Ranbir is entitled to say what he wants,” Randhir said.
Ranbir has been actively promoting his late father Rishi Kapoor’s last film, Sharmaji Namkeen, and it was during the promotions of the film that the Brahmastra actor expressed concern about his uncle. He told NDTV, “My uncle Randhir Kapoor, who is going through an early stage of dementia, and he came to me after the film, said, ‘Tell dad that he is amazing, and where is he, let’s call him‘. Art crosses boundaries of medical conditions… And a good piece of storytelling really embodies that.”
Kapoor passed away mid-way through the shoot of Sharmaji Namkeen. Later, Paresh Rawal stepped in to help complete the film. Ranbir told Film Companion that there was a conversation about him completing his father’s last work under prosthetics, but that did not materialise. “I would have just completed it and it would have been the sentiment of a son completing his father’s work but what Paresh ji brought in, I think we all got really lucky and very grateful that an actor of that calibre agreed to play one character,” he said.
