India, April 4 -- The entire nation has been mourning the loss of veteran actor-filmmaker Manoj Kumar. The legend passed away this morning due to a heart attack. Recalling his last few days, his cousin Manish Goswami talks to us.

Manish shares, "I have been visiting the hospital practically every day. He would have been 88 this July but due to old age complications, gradually, the hearts starts pumping less. He had been talking on and off, but the last three days, he had been speaking less."

Taking pride in how Manoj Kumar introduced 'patriotism' to Indian cinema, he says, "The word patriotism in the Indian film industry, he is the person who's sowed the seed for it from his films like Shaheed, Upkaar and Purab Aur Paschim. These are al...