Today, i.e February 4, is World Cancer Day and this year, the campaign focuses on the theme ‘Close the care gap’.
Today, we bring you a list of 5 Bollywood celebrities who passed away due to the life-threatening disease, cancer.
1. Irrfan Khan
National Award-winning actor Irrfan Khan had passed away at the age of 53 on April 29, 2020. He was diagnosed with a rare disease called neuroendocrine tumour and had been battling with it since 2018.
2. Rishi Kapoor
Less than 24 hours after Irrfan Khan’s death, we had lost another Bollywood star… Rishi Kapoor. The veteran actor was diagnosed with Leukemia, a form of cancer, in 2018 and had immediately moved to New York for further treatment.
After his two-battle with cancer, Rishi Kapoor died at the age of 67 on April 30, 2020, at HN Reliance Hospital, Mumbai.
3. Ghanashyam Nayak
Popularly known as Nattu Kaka from the popular sitcom ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah‘, Ghanashyam Nayak passed away on October 3, 2021, after battling from a rare form of cancer.
He had appeared in popular Bollywood films like ‘Masoom’, ‘Tere Naam’, ‘Ghatak’, ‘Ishq’ and more.
4. Vinod Khanna
Actor-politician Vinod Khanna had passed away at the age of 70 on April 27, 2017. He had reportedly been battling bladder cancer for several years before succumbing to it.
5. Nargis Dutt
Yesteryear actress-politician Nargis Dutt, mother of Sanjay Dutt, had passed away at the age of 51 after an almost year-long battle with pancreatic cancer on May 3, 1981 – 4 days before Sanjay Dutt made his Bollywood debut with ‘Rocky’.