Ram Kapoor reveals he ‘was happy about his father’s death’, says, ‘When you start smiling at death, how can you fear it?’ |

Actor Ram Kapoor opened up about one of the most painful experiences of his life, watching his father battle cancer and eventually losing him. In a conversation with Nayandeep Rakshit, the actor recalled the emotional and traumatic experience of caring for his father during his final days and explained how it changed the way he looked at death.Ram recalled how difficult it was to see his father’s health deteriorate because of cancer. He described the experience as deeply traumatic, particularly because his father was often in severe pain and experienced hallucinations.“I had my hands full with this dying man. It was not easy. Cancer is a very bad way to go. It’s a very bad disease. Sometimes he’s in severe pain, sometimes he’s hallucinating, sometimes he’s… So I had to deal with all of that…” he said.For Ram, his father’s death also brought a sense of relief because it meant an end to his suffering. He admitted that he felt happy about his father’s death, not because he wanted to lose him, but because he could no longer bear to see him in pain.“I was super thrilled that his pain was over. So, in that process, I was happy about the death. I was smiling at the death,” the actor shared.Ram explained that watching his father go through such intense suffering completely changed his relationship with death. The experience made death feel less frightening to him and more like a release from unbearable pain.“So, when you start smiling at death, how can you fear it? So, now it’s a joke to me,” he said.Ram Kapoor has often spoken candidly about difficult experiences in his life. His latest revelation shows how deeply his father’s illness affected him and how caring for him during his final days left a lasting impression.For the actor, accepting death became possible only after seeing firsthand how painful the final stages of his father’s illness could be. What was once something to fear eventually became, in his words, “a joke,” a reflection of how profoundly the experience changed his perspective.