Big B on Rishi and Irrfan: Death of younger celebrity ‘more tragic’

Mumbai, May 2  While Amitabh Bachchan is heartbroken after the demise of colleague and good friend Rishi Kapoor, he feels his “Piku” co-star Irrfan Khan’s death is ‘more tragic’. The veteran actor took to social media to explain why he feels this way.

On Saturday morning, Amitabh Bachchan shared a couple of photographs with Irrfan from the sets of their 2015 film “Piku” and also a throwback black and white still with Rishi Kapoor.

 

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एक वृध लोकप्रिय जानी मानी हस्ती की मृत्यु vs एक जवान लोकप्रिय जानी मानी हस्ती की मृत्यु ; हमें जवान की मृत्यु का दुःख दर्द ज़्यादा , क्यूँ लगता है ; शोक की घड़ी ज़्यादा भारी क्यूँ लगती है ; दोनों ही अपनी अपनी जगह , क़ायम प्रचलित , लोकप्रिय , जानि मानी हस्तियाँ , फिर एक का शोक दूसरे से ज़्यादा गम्भीर क्यूँ लगता है । क्यूँकि , जो जवान था उसकी गुंजाइश की मृत्यु हो गई ; जो उससे सम्भावनाएँ बन सकतीं थीं , वो समाप्त हो गयीं । The death of an elder celebrity vs death of a younger .. the grief of the latter more intense than that of the former .. why ..? The younger more tragic Why the loss of the young seems more tragic than that of the older .. Because you lament the loss of opportunity in the latter .. unrealised possibilities

A post shared by Amitabh Bachchan (@amitabhbachchan) on May 1, 2020 at 9:07pm PDT

He captioned: “The death of an elder celebrity vs death of a younger .. the grief of the latter more intense than that of the former .. why ..? The younger more tragic. Why the loss of the young seems more tragic than that of the older .. Because you lament the loss of opportunity in the latter .. unrealised possibilities…”

Commenting on the 77-year-old actor’s post on Instagram, Bhumi Pednekar expressed that she still cannot believe the two deaths which happened back to back this week.

Bhumi shared: “It’s still so hard to believe and understand what happened in the last week.” The actress shared a heartbroken emoji along with her comment.