India, July 20 -- Vicky Kaushal's father and action director, Sham Kaushal was shocked when doctors told him about the cancer diagnosis, saying his chances of survival are bleak. The news was so crushing that, at one point, he considered taking his own life.

During a conversation on a podcast with Aman Aujla, Sham Kaushal said that his reaction to the news was to contemplate jumping from the third floor of the hospital. He looked back at a surgery he had to undergo in 2003, following which he found out that he had cancer. He shared that the people in the hospital room seemed extremely worried, with the doctor telling him that he wouldn't survive.

Sham said, "They informed me in the evening, and at night, I had this wild thought of jumpi...