Why loss of a younger celebrity feels more tragic? Questions Big B

Amitabh Bachchan like anyone else is apparently trying to figure out what all that has happened in the past couple of days. The megastar in his latest Instagram post tries to understand why the loss of a younger celebrity feels more tragic.

Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan shared a collage of throwback photographs with the late actors Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan on social media and wrote why losing a younger celebrity is more painful when compared.

Big B who has worked with both, Rishi and Irrfan, in his recent Instagram post talked about losing two of his greatest co-stars.

"The death of an elder celebrity vs death of a younger .. the grief of the latter more intense than that of the former .. why ..? The younger more tragic. Why the loss of the young seems more tragic than that of the older .. Because you lament the loss of opportunity in the latter .. unrealised possibilities," wrote Big B.

Bachchan had penned a heartfelt note about his friend Rishi, who passed away on Thursday, and said that he never visited the late veteran star in the hospital as he never wanted to see the distress on Kapoor's smiling cherubic face.

READ |Big B pens emotional note for late Rishi Kapoor

Big B and Rishi co-starred in films like Amar Akbar Anthony, Naseeb, Kabhi Kabhie and more recently in 102 Not Out.

The thespian, who starred with Irrfan Khan in the 2015 film Piku, also starring Deepika Padukone, paid tribute to the late actor on social media on Wednesday and wrote: "Just getting news of the passing of Irfaan Khan. This is a most disturbing and sad news... An incredible talent... A gracious colleague, a prolific contributor to the world of cinema. Left us too soon. Creating a huge vacuum. Prayers and duas."

Meanwhile, Irrfan's wife Sutapa, along with sons Babil and Ayaan, has issued a statement expressing gratitude to his doctors and fans. The family also believes the actor's death is not a loss, because now they will learn to implement things in life that he had taught them over the years.