attention to his increasing waistline putting on a few kilos never really bothered him because he was competing with his acting prowess and never with his looks in fact kumar even had a sharply receding hairline towards his left his hair was combed with a view to hide the spot haribhai was known for his love for good food and drinks the actor never entertained at his home because nonvegetarian food was not permitted but post pack up he was often spotted at his favourite city restaurants or at his friends home costar moushumi chatterjee remembers dinners at my home were very common and he made friends with my cook so even if my husband and i werent at home it didnt prevent jariwala from having a meal at my place however it was his fondness for the bottle that proved to be detrimental to his health in the long run tanuja recalls harry was unable to stop drinking once he started but he was not the kind of person to drink and misbehave if anything he would go quiet after drinking i just feel he got addicted very quicklythe actor though single enjoyed plenty of attention from the ladies while he did have a few heartbreaks he chose not to tie the knot his mother whom he called baa was very keen that he get married and was perpetually on the lookout for his bride however things never materialised towards the end there is a lot written about his relationship with dream girl hema malini when her mother had famously said haris too fat for my slim beautiful daughter but it was his friendship with yesteryear actress nutun that made a lot of noise back in the day the two met on the sets of gauri 1968 and worked together again in devi 1970 nutan who was then married to rajnish bahl would be a regular visitor at sanjeev kumars home and spent a lot of time with his family including his mother slowly their friendship got tongues wagging and the media got a whiff of their alleged affair rumor has it that nutan slapped sanjeev kumar publicly during the shoot of their film after she read about their affair in a magazine it is believed that she publicly humiliated him before the unit on the insistence of her husband kumar refused to shoot for the film devi unless nutan apologised to the actor sanjeev kumar succumbed to heart ailment in 1985 at the age of 47 leaving behind grieving family friends colleagues and fans it is believed that fans thronged his residence in bandra to pay their last respect and along with his brother kishore and nephew uday jariwala it was amitabh bachchan shammi kapoor and shatrughan sinha who performed the last rites sanjeev kumar is an institution for actors even today in the foreword to the biography paresh rawal reveals i would love to reprise koshish someday maybe in my own way and maybe as a tribute