‘My Dad Was Like My First Child’: Sidharth Malhotra’s Emotional Koffee With Karan Confession on Loss and Fatherhood

Sidharth Malhotra has given his most emotional interview yet, opening up about losing his father in the same year he became a parent. Appearing alongside his wife, actor Kiara Advani, on Koffee With Karan, Sidharth spoke about his late father Sunil Malhotra, a former Merchant Navy captain who died in February 2026 after a prolonged illness. His father had been diagnosed with early Parkinson’s disease, a condition that gradually worsened over several years. ‘We were kind of prepared. I think we went through a process with him. His ailment and condition in particular was getting little worse year by year,’ Sidharth said. He revealed that the last four or five years of his father’s life felt like parenting his own parent. ‘The last four or five years it was almost like you know my dad was like my first child. Like you had started parenting him,’ he said. Sidharth recalled taking his father swimming in their building for hydrotherapy, and said the same routines now replay with his daughter Saraayah, who was born in July 2025. ‘Now it’s surreal when I do the same thing with Saraya. It almost feels like okay I have done this before and we just lost him this year,’ he said. He also spoke about his mother, who spent more than five decades with his father, calling her ‘a rock’ who has had it much worse. ‘But they say you lose a parent and you gain a God and the gain of God has resulted in this blessing,’ he said, adding that the experience has changed what he values most. ‘It changes the priorities in my life. Of course I am very ambitious but what I value more has changed.’ Sidharth and Kiara, who married in February 2023 after falling in love on the sets of Shershaah, announced in October 2026 that they are expecting their second child.

Source: Bharat Times