In a candid conversation on Raj Shamani’s podcast, actor Arshad Warsi revisited a deeply painful period of his life: the loss of both his parents when he was just 14 years old. This tragedy forced him to mature rapidly and shoulder responsibilities far beyond his years.
Warsi shared a particularly affecting memory of his mother’s struggle with kidney failure. Despite doctors advising against it, his mother repeatedly asked for water. He recounts the agonizing decision of denying her this simple comfort, haunted by the possibility that giving her water might have eased her final moments, yet fearing the guilt if she hadn’t survived.
“There’s a part of me that says if I had given her water and she had passed away after that, I would have carried that guilt forever,” Warsi confessed. “But now, as an adult, I feel I should have given her the water. We often make decisions based on our guilt, not on what the person really wants.”
The actor also touched upon the significant financial and emotional upheaval his family faced after his parents’ passing. He described their move from a larger home to smaller accommodations and his father’s financial struggles. Warsi admitted that while he tried to be the ‘man of the house’ initially, the full weight of his loss only hit him weeks later.
On the professional front, Arshad Warsi’s recent work includes the commercially successful ‘Jolly LLB 3,’ where he starred alongside Akshay Kumar. He also features in the ZEE5 crime thriller ‘Bhagwat – Chapter One: Raakshas’ and was part of Aryan Khan’s directorial debut, ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’. His upcoming projects include ‘Masti 4’ and a collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan in the action thriller ‘King’.