Tahira Kashyap, writer-director and wife of actor Ayushmann Khurrana is once again fighting breast cancer. She first beat it in 2018, and now facing the second battle with courage and humour and shared a few emotional yet funny moments from her hospital visit.
In a recent carousel post on Instagram captioning it “Hospitals and music are deeply and surgically connected! #Hospital Chronicles (Read each one with its music piece) with the music Kal Ho Na Ho in the background shared how as she went in for a scan, the doctor played the sad song Kal Ho Naa Ho. Tahira joked and asked him to stop it, saying it wasn’t helping her mood “As I entered the scanning and imaging area, the doc there perhaps in his attempt to make the mood lighter had his playlist on. This was the song that was playing as I lay down ready to be taken inside! I gulped and said, ” Sir I appreciate your gesture. but pls isse toh band hi kardo!’”
Later, in the operation theatre, the doctors asked what song she’d like to hear. Seeing all the medical tools, she thought of Asha Bhosle’s intense and further added “In the OT the lovely anaesthesiologist asked me which song would I like to listen to before being knocked out. I saw all the tools coming in and being prepped in the trays. This was the song playing in my head!” The song playing in this one was Asha Bhosle’s “Chakku Chhuriyan Tez Kar Lo”.
After her surgery, as she walked down the hospital corridor, Pehla Nasha played in the background. She also mentioned a funny moment when a 70-year-old patient rushed past her to hear some gossip about an actor’s love life “Hours after the surgery the doc asked me to take few rounds around the corridor. Little did I know that I would be privy to other patients choice of consuming news. This 70 year old lady with her room’s door ajar was keenly listening to an actor’s love life and the disclosure of his recent relationship. Few minutes later I saw her stumbling out of her room racing ahead of me. I can swear I heard her saying agar yeh itna dangal macha sakten hain toh main kyon nahi!’ I always knew the power of cinema both on and off the screen!”
Tahira has always been open about her cancer journey and encourages people to go for early checkups. She thanked everyone for their love and support in her latest health update.
