MUMBAI: Shekhar Suman is one of the best actors and filmmakers in the Indian film industry. His cinematic career amazed everyone when he marked his debut in 1984. He has other talents like, filmmaking, anchoring, and singing, which have also left everyone in surprise.
He is all set to fascinate audiences with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's directional next major production, Heeramandi. He is married to Alka Suman and they have an actor kid named Adhyayan. They also had a second son, Aayush, who tragically died at the age of ten.
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In a recent interaction with Siddharth Kannan, Shekhar Suman walked down memory lane and talked about his painful moments back in time, when he lost his first child, Aayush, at the mere age of 10. The actor turned teary-eyed as he grieved about the incomparable loss, which never got recuperated. Expressing how the time felt like death to him, and subsequently, he lost his will to live.
He said, “Jab I lost my son, Aayush. Das saal ki umar main maine jab usse kho diya tha toh main zindagi se poori tarah tabah aur barbaad ho gaya tha. Mujhe jeena hi nahi tha. I lost a part of my heart who was dearest to me. Aur main zameen par sar patak ke roya tha. Phir uske baad mujhe jeene ki iccha bhi nahi thi.”
Shekhar Suman added, “Main bejaan ho gaya tha. Ek dikhaave ki duniya this jahan main hass muskura deta tha ya for economic necessity kyuki mujhe ghar chalana tha. Par mujhe jeene ki iccha nahi thi.”
Shekhar Suman had previously opened up about his grief regarding the death of his son Aayush. The actor-turned-filmmaker previously compared this irreplaceable loss in his and his wife's lives to a profound betrayal in an earlier interview. After that, he claimed, he and his wife just didn't want to live any longer. They began to follow the sun's rays and center their lives around their son Adhyayan Suman, who was still alive.
Shekhar Suman talked candidly about the difficult time he spent dealing with his son Adhyayan's professional downfall. The loving father related how he frequently caught hold of Adhyayan as he stared blankly at the ceiling fan, recalling how he worried that his son might commit suicide.
Expressing his worries, he had said, “It was difficult for us to get my son out of that bad phase of his life. I used to peek in his room to check that he was okay. It has happened several times that I had opened his door to check on him at 4 or 5 a.m., only to find him staring blankly at the ceiling. I used to ask him to sleep and that we all are there to stand by him.”
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