Anupam Kher says he and Anil Kapoor do not talk about Satish Kaushik when they meet: ‘We know it will upset…’

Anupam Kher and Satish Kaushik were classmates at the National School of Drama. (Photo: Anupam Kher/ Instagram)

Kher said that he “hates” talking about Satish Kaushik’s death as it still makes him teary-eyed. He said that it was “no age to go” and that his friend had “many dreams to fulfill”.

Sharing that Kaushik’s death shocked him as much as his father’s and how it has made him ‘lonely’, Kher said, “He had so much energy and so many, so many ideas, plans. My father’s death had shocked me a lot. Yash Chopra’s death had shocked me a lot. And my previous secretary… We used to call them secretaries, not managers at that time, Mr. Shetty. But then after that… But Satish’s death has really, really made me feel very lonely. Very lonely.”

Talking about coping with the loss along with Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher said that they avoid talking about their friend when they meet. “Even when we are together, we don’t talk about him because we know that it will upset the other person. So there is a presence of Satish Kaushik, even if we are not talking. The moment we are together, we automatically feel the absence of the other person. There was an earlier line I used to always say, sometimes you have to make your presence felt by your absence. This case, I think he’s done it in a big way.”