Raj Kapoor, who suffered from asthma, died of its complications in 1988 at the age of 63. Kapoor had collapsed at an event in New Delhi where he went to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Raj Kapoor literally died with his boots on when in 1988 he fell ill while attending the function to recieve the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. In an unprecedented gesture, then President Venkataraman ...