Rishi Kapoor

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Rishi Kapoor
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Rishi Kapoor (4 September 1952 30 April 2020) was an Indian actor, director and producer. He was known for his work in Hindi cinema.[1] He won the National Film Award for his debut role as a child artist in his father Raj Kapoor's 1970 movie Mera Naam Joker (1970). He is considered one of the greatest actors in Indian Cinema history.[2]

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In 2018, Kapoor was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, and therefore, he went to New York City for treatment and then went back to India after a successful year of treatment.[3] However, he was hospitalized on April 29, 2020 due to breathing difficulties and died of complications of respiratory failure and recurrence of leukemia at a hospital in Mumbai on 30 April 2020, at the age of 67.[4]

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