{"id":322746,"date":"2020-04-30T04:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322746"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:48:23","slug":"veteran-actor-rishi-kapoor-passes-away-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/veteran-actor-rishi-kapoor-passes-away-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passes away at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322747 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rishi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rishi-2.jpg 372w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/rishi-2-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/>Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor has passed away in Mumbai. He was 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kapoor was admitted to H N Reliance hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday as he was not keeping well, his elder brother Randhir Kapoor confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 67-year-old actor returned to India last September after undergoing treatment for cancer in the US for almost a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was taken to the hospital in February this year, after being diagnosed with an infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kapoor had later in a tweet apprised his fans of his health. He was shooting in Delhi at the time when he caught the infection because of pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Dear family, friends, foes and followers. I have been overwhelmed by all your concern about my health. Thank you. I have been filming in Delhi past 18 days and because of the pollution and my low count of neutrophils, I caught an infection whereby I had to be hospitalised,&#8221; the actor had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor has passed away in Mumbai. He was 67. Kapoor was admitted to H N Reliance hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday as he was not keeping well, his elder brother Randhir Kapoor confirmed. The 67-year-old actor returned to India last September after undergoing treatment for cancer in the US for almost a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322752,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322746\/revisions\/322752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}