Geeta Kapoor adjusting to new home

Mumbai: Allegedly abandoned by her son and daughter, former Bollywood actor Geeta Kapoor is now trying to adjust with her life in Jeevan Asha, an old age home in Andheri (west). Although she is also showing signs of adapting to her new abode by taking her meals and medicines, and undergoing medical tests, she spent most of her first day asking and crying for her children on Thursday.

Talking to The Asian Age, Sister Sarla from Jeevan Asha said, “Geeta is not stable. She sounds very depressed, and also cried very often. We are trying to look after her physical as well as mental health. She has been asking for her children from the moment she came in but it will take her some time to adapt to the new environment.”

Kapoor was a small time actor who has worked in films like Pakeezah and has now been abandoned by her son and daughter that led to her landing in the old age home instead of her original residence in Goregaon (east), Jawahar Phata. Her son Raja Kapoor had admitted her to the privately run SRV hospital in Goregaon where she had to spend the next 41 days waiting for her children to take her home. But, since they didn't, the doctors had to shift her to the old age home. The local police officials are clueless about the whereabouts of her son and daughter.

After Kapoor's complete body check up, she was sitting on her wheelchair when The Asian Age met her. She said, “I am asking for their forgiveness. I just want my son to come and take me home.”

According to SRV Hos-pital's chief intensivist, Dr. Dipendra Tripathi, when  Kapoor was April 21, she was found to be depressed because of being kept without food and water. “We tried to contact her daughter Pooja, who resides in Pune but she hasn't replied yet,” the doctor said.

Kapoor has worked in many black and white films. Her most notable works include Kamal Amrohi’s Pakeezah and Razia Sultan. However, she doesn’t remember any of these names.