New Delhi: Anupam Kher hosted a special event on Thursday on the 67th birth anniversary of his late friend Satish Kaushik. Many eminent personalities from Bollywood, including Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Anil Kapoor, Neena Gupta, and Subhash Ghai, Rani Mukerji, attended the event and remembered the late actor-filmmaker by sharing many anecdotes. Kaushik’s wife Shashi and 10-year-old daughter Vanshika were also present at the event. Vanshika also read the letter she wrote to her father after his death.
Anupam Kher shared that when Kaushik’s mortal remains were brought to Mumbai, Vanshika gave him a letter to be kept beside her father. When he asked her about the content of the letter, she told him she would read it at the right time.
At the ‘Satish Kaushik Night’, Vanshika read the letter, “Hello Papa, I know that now you are no more but I want you to know that I will always be there for you. Your friends taught me to be strong but I can’t live without you. I miss you so much. If I knew this was going to happen, I would miss school to spend time with you. I wish I could have hugged you once. You are still in my heart. Like the movies, I wish there is a miracle and you are alive. I don’t know who will save me from mumma when I will not do my homework. I do not feel like going to school anymore. I don’t know what my friends will say. Will they make fun of me? Please come in my dreams every single day. I have done pooja for you and I want you to be in heaven and live a happy life in a big mansion with a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari. You will eat great food. Anyways, we will meet in 90 years again. Please don’t be reborn, we will meet in 90 years. Please remember me, I will remember you forever. I had the world’s best dad ever.”
Vanshika was born to Satish Kaushik and his wife Shashi through surrogacy in 2012.
Satish Kaushik passed away in March this year due to a heart attack.