Actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood has spoken publicly about his own years as a caregiver, after watching the short film ‘Kuch hoga toh batana’ about a young woman looking after her father through treatment. The film is part of MrMed’s Care for the Caregiver appeal.

The film, released under MrMed’s Care for the Caregiver initiative, follows a young woman who has given up her job, her friends, her time on social media and even a visit to the parlour, because her whole focus has become her father’s recovery. “Her father was the patient,” Sood says. “And she was the caregiver.”

Watching it, he says, brought back a period of his own life. “When my parents were unwell, I had to take them to the hospital every week. And at that time, I was almost oblivious to the fact that anything else in my life existed. My films. My work. My daily routine. My fitness. My friends. None of it seemed to matter.”

It was on those weekly visits, he recalls, that he first began noticing the people around him. “Every time I went to the hospital, I would see the person who had come along with the patient. The caregiver. And my heart would always go out to them. Because I would think — this person’s life has pretty much come to a standstill.”

In almost every household where someone is unwell, Sood says, there is one person who gives up their work, their passions, their friends and their routine, and whose entire day comes to revolve around decisions nobody else sees: which medicine, at what time, what the doctor said, what needs to be done next. “These may seem like small things,” he says, “but for this person, this becomes their entire life.”

His appeal is deliberately small and specific. Look around your family, your friends and your community, he says, find the person who has become a caregiver, and offer something real rather than sympathy. “Maybe I can take care of the patient for three or four hours. Maybe I can give you a few hours where you don’t have to worry. Maybe I can simply give you some time to yourself.”

“Because sometimes, the person who is taking care of everyone else also needs someone to take care of them. You can become the caregiver for that caregiver,” Sonu Sood on caring for his parents.

He ends with a salute to every person who has quietly set their own life aside for somebody else. “We see you. We are here for you.”

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Atul Tiwari

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