New Delhi: Actor Shekhar Suman and his son Adhyayan Suman will soon be seen on the screen after a long time in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s much-anticipated project, ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar.’ Shekhar, who is busy promoting the series, recently spoke about how Bhansali praised his son, Adhyayan, making the actor emotional. Shekhar also revealed it was only the second time in his life he had cried, the first being the loss of his son Aayush.
In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Shekhar said, "The way he was praising him, which I thought was long overdue. It was coming from a person whose validation meant everything to me. That’s why I was crying. If it was a normal director or a normal film, I would be like ‘chalo acha hai.’ The person who is a perfectionist, who knows what is good and bad, if he speaks superlatives about your son, then 14 years of pain, it was like catharsis.”
He added, “Only two times in my life I have cried like this. One is when I lost my elder son Aayush. I lost a part of my heart, who was dearest to me. I cried while beating my head to the ground. I didn’t want to live after that. I was lifeless. The world was a façade where I would smile and laugh, either for appearances or out of economic necessity because I had to run my household.”
Shekhar also recounted seeking solace in astrology after his son's passing, recalling, He said, "When Aayush passed away, we consulted a lot of astrologers and asked ‘why did this happen to us?’ They said worse things have happened to people. Somebody said ‘he will come in front of you one day and give you his darshan.’ We believed it."
Sharing an incident, Shekhar described his wife's encounter with a mysterious individual near Vishwanath temple, who said a sentence that Aayush used to say during his hospital days.
“My wife went to Vishwanath temple. I was busy with elections. She called and started crying. I immediately asked, ‘Did you meet Aayush?’ She said, ‘He just came and met me for half a second.’ She blacked out.”
‘Heeramandi’, starring Sonakshi Sinha, Manisha Koirala, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha among others, is scheduled to release on May 1 on Netflix.