Death has come so close: Shakti Kapoor
The devastation in the country with the spiralling number of cases in the second wave of Covid-19 has hit everyone hard, and actor Shakti Kapoor admits he finds it “heartbreaking” to even go on social media or to watch news channels.
“The past one year has been so difficult. Death has come so close now. People are dropping dead like flies. I just heard that a friend’s brother went to the hospital in the morning and in the evening he was no more. It’s so unpredictable,” Kapoor shares. The 68-year-old — who has taken both his vaccination doses — says vaccinating the whole country is the only solution to this problem.
“My daughter Shraddha’s friend recently came from Israel and she said no one in her country wears masks anymore. The government has vaccinated almost 85-90% of the population. So, it’s not that our country can’t fight the virus. We can, once we all are vaccinated, though I know our population is huge,” he says.
The actor, however, acknowledges that there are a lot of hurdles, given the mindset of people. “We have this attitude, ‘Dekha jayega jo hoga’. That’s why the second phase is so deadly,” Kapoor rues. Adding how election rallies have only worsened things, he says, “I felt very angry wondering why elections are even happening. I saw Mithun (Chakraborty) giving bhashan and maine usko bhi message kiya tha ki matt ja. He is my jaan. Then the melas…We need to be strict.”