Raveena Tandon’s father Ravi Tandon passed away at the age of 86 yesterday on February 11. The veteran producer and writer-director had lung fibrosis and passed away due to respiratory failure brought on by age and disease. Today, Raveena took to social media to pen down a heartfelt tribute to her late father.
She wrote an open letter wherein she wrote that all that’s valuable means nothing as compared to her late father whom she can no longer hold in her arms. However, she opines that he will forever remain close to her heart and wrote, “I do not hold you in my arms and press you close to my heart, yet feel these things. When you are hurt, I feel your pain, when you sorrow I share your tears, and when you laugh there is joy in me. All the things you were once part of me - your blood, your bones, your flesh. You are part of the dream I was that still remains. You are the proof that once I moved and walked the earth. You are my legacy to the world, the most precious that I could borrow. All the values are as nothing when compared with you."
She further wrote, “In your time there will be many wonders. The distant corners of the earth will be a moment's journey, the deepest ocean, the highest mountain, perhaps even the stars themselves will be within the reach of your fingers. And yet all these miracles wil be nothing when compared with the miracle of you. For you are the miracle of my continuing flesh. You are the link that joins me with tomorrow, the link in the chain the spreads from time beginning to time never ending. I live in the hearts of those who remember me." She concluded with, "And to live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
Confirming her father’s passing, Raveena had shared a few throwback pictures yesterday and written, “You will always walk with me, I will always be you, I’m never letting go." The actress broke gender norms by performing the final rites of her father yesterday.
(Source: Instagram)
