It was last week, on January 14, that the tragic news of Ritu Nanda’s demise hit the web. Ritu Nanda, the sister of actor Rishi Kapoor and mother-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter Shweta Bachchan, reportedly passed away due to cancer. Ritu Nanda’s funeral took place in Delhi on January 15, the day after she took her last breathe and it was graced by almost the entire Kapoor and Bachchan families. Yesterday, a prayer meet was organised to pay tribute to the departed soul, the glimpse of which sees Bachchans and Kapoors getting extremely emotional.
The video begins with a music band honoring and performing a soulful track in the memory of Ritu Nanda, while the Bachchans and Kapoors are seated amid the audiences. A closer look and we see Shweta Bachchan crying her heart out. Well, this doesn’t come as a surprise, considering Shweta has been very close to her mother-in-law. Amitabh Bachchan and Ritu’s granddaughter Navya Nanda, too, was seen getting emotional. As for the Kapoors, we saw Rishi, Rajiv and Randhir sobbing and remembering their dear sister.
Check out the video below:
Not very long ago, Shweta Bachchan had dedicated a sweet post to her mother-in-law and wrote that she will miss her a lot. Big B, on the other hand, called Ritu Nanda an ideal daughter, an ideal sister, an ideal wife, an ideal mother, an ideal partner and an ideal friend. He wrote, “T 3710 - एक आदर्श बेटी , एक आदर्श बहन , एक आदर्श पत्नी , एक आदर्श माँ , एक आदर्श समधी और एक आदर्श मित्र , हमसे आज सदा के लिए दूर चली गयीं । जीवन में कुछ क्षण ऐसे होते हैं , जिन्हें शोक की शांति का आदर मिलना चाहिए ! (An ideal daughter, an ideal sister, an ideal wife, an ideal mother, an ideal partner and an ideal friend, went away from us today forever. There are few moments in life that should be respected for the peace of mourning!)”
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