Actor Shekhar Suman recently got emotional while talking about his late son Ayush Suman. In an interview with ABP News, he remembered how his family felt when Ayush was diagnosed with Endomyocardial Fibrosis (EMF), which led to his death. (Also Read: Shekhar Suman defends Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s anger issues: ‘Raj Kapoor, K Asif were also like this’)
‘I tried everything to save him’
In the interview, when Shekhar was asked how he handled work, his wife’s grief and his son’s sickness back then, he replied, “It often happens that a woman looks after her home, so she’s (his wife Alka) strong even in heartbreaking situations ; she it’s the man who breaks. My father was a good doctor; he was the one who noticed there was something wrong with my son. “He was a great doctor but he couldn’t save his own grandson.”
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He added that his son lived for four years after the diagnosis despite being given less than a year to give, “After we ran tests, we realized he had Endomyocardial Fibrosis (EMF), it’s rare. We were told he had only 8 months to live; we felt like we would die too. I have lived for four years. There hasn’t been a religious place I didn’t visit or medicine I didn’t try. There can be nothing more heartbreaking than a parent seeing their child dead; “the wound has only deepened with time.” Ayush lived until he was 11.
Recent work
Shekhar and his younger son Adhyayan Suman recently worked together in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s web series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. Based on the life of courtesans in pre-Independent India, the series sees them play nawabs. Shekhar plays Zulfilkar, Manisha Koirala’s Mallikajaan’s patron, while Adhyayan plays a younger version of him, apart from another character. The series also stars Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh and Sharmin Segal.
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