Concerned fans of celebrities often turn to Google to seek answers on what ails them, or about their road to recovery. But, last December, an unusual inquiry hit the website’s chart of frequently asked questions. ‘Why did Remo D’Souza have a heart attack?’ 

“Neither my doctors, nor I, precisely know,” D’Souza addresses what is only a fitting concern. At the age of 46, the filmmaker has been flaunting a body that could egg even the young lot of actors to pull up their socks. Backed by a lifestyle devoid of aerated drinks, and cigarettes, D’Souza could well be the poster boy of good health. “When I was diagnosed, it was 100 per cent [blockage]. That obviously couldn’t have happened overnight. I kept telling my doctors that there should have been some signs; a sense of exhaustion, perhaps? There was none; it was sudden. So, they are still figuring it out,” he says, adding that, determined to pin it to a cause, they have, “for now”, assigned it to his genetic makeup. Although his father passed away owing to other ailments, D’Souza admits he too had an attack.