Anupam Kher and his brother Raju Kher are not mourning the death of their father Pushkarnath Kher who passed away last week. 

“We're indeed celebrating our father's death. He lived a full life. He witnessed so many wonderful happenings during his life. He liked to spread happiness wherever he went. I'm sure he's at this very moment making everyone laugh in heaven,” said Anupam, who returned from Goa airport on hearing the news, aborting his trip to attend Rohit Dhawan’s marriage.

"I'm sure if my father had his way, he'd have urged me to attend the wedding instead of returning,” he told a Bollywood website.

Kher calls his father his biggest critic as well as fan who kept track of each and every word in the media about his son and also called him if something written disturbed him. Till Kher’s dad lived in Shimla, they would connect every morning. More recently of course, they moved to Mumbai to be with their sons.

The Khers requested those invited for the condolence meeting to show up in normal, colorful clothes “because that's what my father provided in our lives all his life — lots of vibrant colors of joy and positivity.”

“I know he's up there looking down at us. He will find a way to connect with me, just like he did even in those days of bad STD connections between Shimla and Mumbai,” Kher told the website.