And let’s move forward, actor Shekhar Suman is going to be seen with his son Adhyayan Suman in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s most awaited series Heeramandi. Shekhar Suman is quite excited about the series. In a special conversation with ABP News, Shekhar Suman got emotional about his elder son Ayush Suman. Ayush is no longer in this world. Remembering him, Shekhar told how losing Ayush was a big tragedy of his life.One, you just mentioned Alka ma’am, so we often heard that during this time, you also had to handle Adhyayan, he was not getting work, somewhere he too must have been disturbed, you yourself, because of your son, but to handle him, to handle Alka ma’am, how difficult was it, how difficult was it to handle your wife, she was more emotional?Look, it often happens that the wife handles the house and because women have more strength than men, men break down.
I know that when we got the bad news about Ayush, in 1979 and now… My father was a very big doctor and Ayush was sitting in his lap, then he felt that his stomach is a little big, so he said that his liver is looking a little big, enlarged liver, do get his checkup done after going to Bombay. The checkup was done, but it was not known why the liver was enlarged, so we also did not realize its seriousness because we could not even in our dreams think that it would be… Later when his diagnosis was not happening, Babuji said get his 2D echo done, heart…
Heart… Why heart? He said, do what I am saying. And 2D, and this is the first time I am telling this to anyone, and when the report of that 2D heart echo came, the result came, something was written in it that the doctor looked at me with such eyes that he is extremely helpless to tell what is in it. I came home with that report, Babuji said read and tell what is in it, so it was written Left Ventricular EMF Endo Myo Cardio Fibrosis. When I read and told him, complete silence fell from there, for a minute or two there was no sound at all, so I said Babuji, Babuji, are you listening to what I am saying, and I had no idea what EMF is.After that, when I went to the cardiologist that day with this report and I still remember that scene, I still remember those words, he said, I am really sorry Shekhar. After hearing this, complete darkness fell before my eyes, complete silence, no sound was coming in my ears, what he was saying after that, and crying I then asked him, Doctor sahab, how long?
Then he said, maximum eight months. The ground slipped from under my feet, it felt like the whole world was destroyed, the sky fell on my head, I felt I would die of a heart attack. I cried a lot, cried a lot in front of him, he said, control yourself.When I came out of the door, I didn’t need to say anything, Alka started crying after seeing me, that I have come out with some very bad news. There would be no mosque, gurudwara, no saint, no fakir, no medicine, alternative medicine, homeopathy, alternative medicine, magnet therapy, this therapy, that therapy, homeopathy, whoever said whatever, wherever I had to go, I went everywhere. I took him to America, took him to London, there was a doctor named Celia Oakley who was a specialist in this. Now let me tell you that EMF is such a disease that occurs in one in billions, one in billions. In India, there would be only three or four cases in total, as far as I know, and it occurs more in coastal areas, Kerala side, here and there, and in South Africa. This heart gets fibrosed, meaning the power of elasticity in it ends, due to which the heart is not able to pump blood and there is no treatment for it,
no treatment till now, its only treatment is heart transplant. You can understand our helplessness, our despair, how disappointed we were that father, such a big doctor who saved the lives of crores of people, was not able to save his grandson’s life. We showed him to the best doctors in the world, whatever was possible, I said I went and banged my head in every temple. It’s just that by the grace of God, he did not stay for eight months, he stayed for 4 years. Till date, perhaps this has never happened, or it has happened very rarely.We came to a stage where now symptoms started appearing that now there is not much time left and we could not bear to see his condition. Alka became… she was saying on this point that she might be the first mother who prayed that now take my child away,
I cannot see his pain anymore. And that scene never goes away from before the eyes, when he was lying on a slab of ice. And what bigger tragedy, what bigger sorrow can there be for a father and a mother than when they have to give shoulder to their own child.We thought that in the coming time, because time heals wounds, yes that time, that pain-filled… that did not reduce, that time kept increasing.
