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Raj Kapoor's daughter and star LIC advisor Ritu Nanda passes away

| @indiablooms | Jan 14, 2020, at 01:47 pm

New Delhi/UNI/IBNS: Ritu Nanda, Raj Kapoor's elder daughter and the mother-in-law of megastar Amitabh Bachchan's daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda, died here on Tuesday after a battle with Cancer, the Kapoor family said. She was also famously known as a famous Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) advisor who sold countless policies. 

Taking to Instagram, Neetu Kapoor broke the news of Nanda's demise.

"My dearest may your soul Rest In Peace,'Neetu Kapoor, wife of Raj Kapoor's son Rishi Kapoor, said.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My dearest may your soul Rest In Peace 🙏💕🌸

A post shared by neetu Kapoor. Fightingfyt (@neetu54) on

Seventy-one-year old Ritu Nanda, wife of industrialist Rajan Nanda, who passed away in 2018, had been battling cancer.

Shweta is married to Ritu Nanda's son Nikhil Nanda.

Posting on his blog, Amitabh Bachchan said, "My ‘samdhan’ Ritu Nanda, Shweta’s Mother in Law passed away suddenly at 1.15 Am .. cannot communicate .. travelling".

Condoling the death, even Rishi Kapoor and Neetu's daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni posted the photo of her aunt and captioned it stating, "To the kindest most gentle person I‘ve ever met - They don’t make them like you anymore - RIP bua #missyoualways"

Nanda had made it to the Guinness Book of Records for selling 17,000 pension policies of LIC in a single day. She was the member of elite LIC Chairman’s Club for  eight years in a row.  She had figured among the top 1,000 insurance professionals in the world.

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