After looking at those photos, Raj Kapoor had said ... I was in Bombay when Chimpu died. I was informed about his death by Boney Kapoor. He called me and said, ‘Chimpu is no more’.
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.