Ram Kapoor reveals one decision which made his mother and sister stop talking to him: ‘I think it’s one of the best things….’

Ram Kapoor has been in a mood to spill the beans on his life. The Bade Acche Lagte star, who was last seen in Ekta Kapoor’s reality TV series Lock Upp: Sach Ya Sazaa, recently opened up about serving a prison sentence in a chat with Nayandeep Rakshit.

Kapoor admitted he was in jail both in India and the US, and he served one day in each prison. He admitted he was young and stupid. “In college days, you do a lot of stupid things, and sometimes when you get caught, you have to spend a night in jail till they let you go home," he said.

Kapoor said that his father did not come to see him in jail; he had become estranged from his father for insisting on being an actor and not joining the family business.


Kapoor said that he helped his father plan his death. At 63, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and that was inoperable. He had 18 sessions, and the tumours disappeared. He lived a long life till he was 73. Then the cancer came back. Kapoor revealed how he had helped his father manage living with terminal illness and dying.

He revealed how he fulfilled his father’s last wishes – to not burden his family with the knowledge and not leave him alone in his last moments. He admitted that it was no easy feat for him as a son, but he wanted to gift his father – who had lived life unapologetically, like king, deserve to die like royalty.

“He said, ‘When they put me in the ICU, you have to be there with me.’ We got admitted, but nobody knew that there was no treatment happening. My mother, my sister, no one. He just wanted me to hold his hand and let him go. I had promised him that I would do it, but I didn’t know if I would be strong enough. Somehow, he knew I could do it, and he was scared of being alone; he thought if anyone else learned about this, they wouldn’t allow it. He said no one should cry at his funeral, and once he died, he must be cremated the very same day. Somehow, I held his hand, and every day I helped him go. My mother and sister still don’t talk to me; it’s been more than 5 years. But I think it’s one of the best things a child can do for his parent…” he said.

Kapoor also said this episode changed his views on death and made him more accepting of the inevitability of death and dying.