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Vicky Kaushal’s dad Sham Kaushal recalls having suicidal thoughts due to this reason

By: Divya Thearia

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9 August, 2022 (New Delhi): Vicky Kaushal’s father Sham Kaushal is a well-known action director in the film industry. He has been active in Bollywood for more than four decades. While he worked behind the scenes, both his sons Vicky and Sunny are doing films-web series as actors. Sham Kaushal’s personal life faced difficulties when he came to know that he had stomach cancer. Now he spoke openly on this and told that he came to know about it in the year 2003.

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Sham Kaushal told that his condition was such that he did not know whether he would survive or not. In an interview with Times of India, Sham Kaushal said, ‘I came back after finishing the shooting of the film Lakshya in Ladakh. I was having stomach problem. The shooting of Shyam Benegal’s film Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was on and we were on a day off for Diwali. I was having a lot of pain in my stomach. Next day I reached Nanavati Hospital for checkup. I got admitted and they operated on my stomach. Earlier, I had gone to Nanavati Hospital for the problem of appendix, so the doctors knew about my problem.’k

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Sham Kaushal told that he used to have thoughts of suicide. He said, ‘I felt there was no chance of my survival. I had decided to commit suicide by jumping from the third floor as I could not live like that but I could not get out of bed as I had undergone stomach operation. Sham Kaushal told that when he was in the hospital, he got an offer from Anurag Kashyap’s film ‘Black Friday’ but his health was not good, so he refused at first. Then Anurag said that he will shoot the film only when he comes back. Sham Kaushal told that when he returned after 50 days, he worked with Anurag.

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