Veteran actor Dilip Kumar passed away at Hinduja Healthcare Hospital in Khar on Wednesday around 7.30 am. Dr Jalil Parkar, the actor’s doctor for the last 21 years, remembers him as an affectionate person, and someone who bowled him over with his style and aura.

Dr Parkar, a chest physician at the Lilavati Hospital, said he would love to talk to everyone. “He would chat with the doctors, nurses, ward boys every time he got hospitalised. He would ask them about their families and how their day was,” said Dr Parkar, whose first interaction with the actor was when he went to invite him as chief guest for the annual day function of the Grant Medical College where he was a student.