Tragic loss: Dilip Kumar and his two brothers Aslam and Ehsaan move away within the span of a yr – Instances of India

The previous yr and a half have been extraordinarily tough for everybody world wide. Not solely did the virus shut everybody down of their properties and trigger an upheaval within the economic system, nevertheless it additionally snatched away a number of family members from each other. Dilip Kumar‘s household, too, is reeling beneath the aftermath of three tragic losses sustained throughout the span of 1 yr, two of which had been brought on by the rogue virus.

Final yr, on August 21, Dilip Kumar’s youthful brother Aslam Khan had succumbed to Covid-19 within the Lilavati hospital the place he had been admitted upon complaining of breathlessness. Aslam additionally suffered from diabetes, hypertension, and ischaemic coronary heart illness.

Quickly after, on September 3, 2020, Dilip saab’s youngest brother, Ehsaan Khan, who was admitted to the hospital together with Aslam, and had additionally examined optimistic, breathed his final. He was 90. He suffered from coronary heart illness, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s. Each the brother had been beneath Dr Jalil Parker‘s care on the coronavirus ward of the hospital.

In the present day, on July 7, Dilip saab breathed his final at 7:30 am on the Hinduja hospital in Mumbai. He was affected by a protracted sickness that had seen him out and in of hospitals a number of occasions over the previous few months. He was accorded state honours and laid to relaxation on the Juhu Qabrastan at round 5 pm. All of Bollywood paid their final respects to the thespian. Even those that could not make it to the veteran actor’s Khar residence or the cemetery paid tributes on social media.

Dilip Kumar’s fourth brother, actor Nasir Khan had handed away in 1974. He was 50.