Exclusive - Mahabharat actor Satish Kaul passes away due to COVID-19; actress Preeti Sapru calls him an affectionate man

Mahabharata actor Satish Kaul passed away due to Covid-19 on Saturday. The 73-year-old actor breathed his last in Ludhiana. Satish had played the role of Lord Indra in the mythological series Mahabharata.
Last year during the lockdown, the veteran actor cried about going through a severe financial crisis, which made it difficult for him to end his basic needs. Satish Kaul worked in over 300 Punjabi and Hindi films with some big names from the entertainment industry.
Producer and actress Preeti Sapru confirmed the news and shared, "He had fever three days ago and then the nurse who was taking care of him got his COVID-19 test done and he was tested positive.I am terribly sad as the nurse had called me but I have set up a camp in my society for COVID tests. We were testing some 600 people for coronavirus and I was very busy with it and couldn’t take the call. Now, I am feeling very bad about it. The nurse who was taking care of him would regularly call me up and make me speak to him and this time I just couldn’t take her call. I am feeling very bad maybe he wanted to talk to me. But our society is in a bad state because there are close to 30 COVID cases and we are trying to control that. He passed today in the afternoon around 2 PM.”
Remembering Satish Kaul, she said, “He was a very affectionate man. I have known him since I was just 11/12 years old. He would come to our house. I did one film with him, a Punjabi movie Suhaag Joda. I always gave him the respect of a senior actor of Punjabi cinema. He has done many Punjabi films. He worked in Hindi films and TV shows as well. He lived in Punjab only for the last few years. This lady was taking care of him when he fell and got operated for his back. He was in the old age home of an NRI which was a beautiful place but he had some problems with the manager there and he left the place. Then he was living with a lady nurse who was taking care of him. He came to Mumbai to my house last year with his sister and her son for lunch. May God rest his soul in peace.”
Talking about Satish Kaul, he had moved to Punjab from Mumbai and had started an acting school around 2011, which didn't take off.
In an interview with PTI, speaking about how the audience has forgotten him, Satish Kaul had said, "It's ok if they've forgotten me. I got so much of love and I'm grateful. I will forever be indebted to the audience for that. Right now, I wish I am able to buy a decent place of my own where I can stay. The fire to act is still alive in me. It isn't over. I wish someone gives me a role even today, any role, and I would do it. I'm raring to act again."
On the other hand, the second wave of Covid-19 has hit high and several restrictions have been imposed due to it.