Popular director, Anurag Basu, who has given hit films like Life in a… Metro, Barfi!, Ludo and most recently Metro… In Dino has faced a lot of tough challenges in his life. His journey is about survival, determination and the will to keep fighting. The director recently spoke about how he almost lost his life because of blood cancer in 2004.
An incident that changed Anurag Basu’s life
In 2004, Anurag Basu was working on his films, Murder and Saaya, when he started to face some health issues, which started off as painful mouth ulcers. He avoided it for a while but later, he found out that he was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, which is a rare form of blood cancer. Doctors had given him two weeks to live as his organs were failing and his condition worsened day by day. At that time, Anurag Basu’s wife, Tani was seven months pregnant, and Anurag Basu only wished to be able to see his child before dying.
