India, Sept. 2 -- Ram Kapoor has spoken candidly about losing his father, Anil "Billy" Kapoor, after a long and painful battle with cancer. In a conversation with Nayandeep Rakshit, the actor opened up about his father's final days, the difficult promise he made to him and the emotions he went through when he eventually passed away.

Ram's father, Anil, was a businessman who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at 63. Doctors said the cancer was inoperable, but he underwent 18 rounds of chemotherapy and eventually went into remission. He was able to live a good life for another decade, until the cancer returned when he was 73.

The cancer came back during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Anil was in Singapore. This time, his condition was far ...