One thing is for sure, with more and more people surviving cancer, it is not a death sentence anymore. You just need positive energy to fight cancer. Fight it and you will come out as a winner. Most of us would identify Anurag Basu as the director of Barfi. However, there is another side of him which many don’t know.

In 2004, the famed director suffered from acute promyelocytic leukemia – a type of blood cancer.

The doctors gave him 2 months to live when he was diagnosed during the filming of ‘Tumsa Nahin Dekha’.

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Anurag Basu looked at cancer in the eye and did not let it affect his life.

He behaved as if he suffered from a common cold, even though the doctors predicted that his chances of survival were 50%.

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