Pakistani Actress Zeba Bakhtiar Remembers Her Henna Co-star Rishi Kapoor

Zeba Bakhtiar is a Pakistani actress, but she is equally popular in India as well. The actress romanced superstar Rishi Kapoor in their 1991 cross-border love story Henna, a film which has been seen by every Bollywood lover. Zeba Bakhtiar was shattered when she came to know about the sudden demise of her Henna co-star Rishi Kapoor on 30^th April.

In an interview, Zeba Bakhtiar said that she was in touch with Kapoor through calls and messages. She revealed that his elder brother Randhir Kapoor had assured her that the actor was doing well two days before his death.

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Zeba Bakhtiar told an online publication in India that before mobile phones came into our lives, she used to call him on his landline phone to wish him on his birthday and Diwali. And once the trend of WhatsApp started, they communicated on that to wish each other. Also, he used to message her whenever a film of Ranbir Kapoor released and she used to make it a point to go and watch it.

Walking down the memory lane, Zeba Bakhtiar remembered her first meeting with Rishi Kapoor. She said that the first day she worked with Rishi Kapoor was for a screen shoot and a photo shoot for Henna. She was totally new and unfamiliar with everything, so she was very, very nervous. But he made it quite comfortable for her and encouraged her a lot, so much so that in just 48 hours, she felt like the Kapoor family is her family.

Rishi Kapoor breathed his last on 30^th April in a private hospital in Mumbai. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. The actor underwent treatment for the same in a hospital in the USA and returned India towards the end of 2019. He is survived by his wife Neetu Kapoor and children, Ranbir Kapoor and Riddhima Kapoor.