Mumbai/IBNS: Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday, his elder brother Randhir Kapoor confirmed to media.
He is in Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, his brother informed.
Randhir Kapoor told Indian Express: “He is hospitalised. Neetu [his wife] is by his side. He is not well.”
One of the successful actors of the Kapoor clan who had made his debut with Bobby in 1973 as a Bollywood hero a few years after playing a child artist in his father Raj Kapoor's film Mera Naam Joker, Rishi Kapoor was under treatment for cancer in USA.
He had returned to India last September after almost a year under treatment abroad.
Bollywood director Rahul Rawail in April last year had tweeted that Rishi Kapoor is 'cancer free'.
Father of Ranbir Kapoor, he was last seen in Anubhav Sinha’s Mulk and then in The Body alongside Emraan Hashmi in 2019.
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