man like him today i feel happy that i may not be a khan but i have carved a place for myself in the profession people take my name with respect and though i am nowhere near my legendary father my work and career has reached a stage where people started identifying my father as ram kapoors father it took me 10 years to impress him and from a rocky relationship that i shared with him during those initial years we went on to become great buddies he used to proudly tell people how i was his best friendyou mentioned how you bonded with him in the last few yearsboth he and i had busy careers and it was challenging to be physically present and share common things but we bonded a lot over phone calls and long conversations which lasted for 23 hours we used to fight argue and have the best advice for each other it is because we kept our work lives separate and were selfreliant we became such a close fatherson duo in many ways i am similar to my dad and thats why i am what i am today and though i was aware of how he turned around a dying ad agency to one of the top five agencies in the country and his achievements i always detached from his profession similarly he must have watched all my films my tv shows and series but he never once complimented me on my work through my wife mother or sister he would convey that he was very happy with my achievements he had a lot of expectations from me and i am happy i fulfilled them in his last days we discussed death not in a morbid way but as a matter of fact even now there are times when i wake up crying and miss him a lot but in my heart i know that i have healed and feel a sense of satisfaction i could give him a sendoff like the way he wanted0254ram kapoor on his equation with father ad veteran anil kapoor and their last days together