Actor Arjun Kapoor lost his mother just few months before he was about to mark his Bollywood debut in 2012. Speaking about coping with the loss, Arjun had told Zoom in an interview, “How does one deal with a parent’s loss? I don’t know. It’s been eight years (since his mother passed away) but I am still not an expert on dealing with it. It’s not like I can give you any kind of take on it because every day is a new struggle. It’s like your backbone is broken and they tell you to walk.”
He also said that his sister Anshula emerged as a pillar of support for him. “I envy those people who have that stability to go back home to their mothers because that makes a difference. My stability now comes with having Anushla around but in the beginning years, Anshula was working in Delhi and I was alone. So I used to be just out working because I didn’t want to be alone at home and that’s how I tried to deal with it. I dealt with it by just running away from it. And then eventually I had to accept it and be home and realise that this is my life that I don’t have her around.
Something that I can share now….we had not touched her room for six years. But then the point is, it’s not a normal thing to have one room completely locked up forever when you don’t have place in the house right? But it’s just that for me and Anshula, this house is her. So everyday I go out make people happy, make myself happy, work, act in movie, celebrate being a star and there’s love and selfies, mazza aa raha hai, shooting kar rahe ho, your living the dream job. And then when you come back home, and I can’t tell her what I did. So it just feels like incomplete. Whatever I do, that void will remain. So you can’t deal with it beyond dealing with it as as it happens. You have to be spontaneous and understand it, accept it, smile about it, bitter sweet, think about her in a positive way and then move ahead.”
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