On the occasion of World Cancer Day on February 4, Sonali Bendre shared a powerful post about her long journey with Cancer. She said that we all dread the ‘C’ word. We fear it so much that we rather not talk about it and thus it was important to have a day where we pull out the band-aid and talk about the disease. She said that there’s more to Cancer than being emotional or weak. There’s more to Cancer than being called a fighter or a survivor.

She emphasized the fact that Cancer needs to be understood and one has to study it. Being emotional and weak was not going to help. One has to find out what works for you and most of all you have to be diligent about the treatment. It requires one to bring out the inner strength and believe that tomorrow will be a better day.

She concluded her post by saying that “Cancer is not about surviving each day but living it. Just taking it #OneDayAtATime makes it easier to #SwitchOnTheSunshine. #WorldCancerDay.”

Besides Sonali Bendre, Ayushmann Khurrana’s wife Tahira Kashyap, Arjun Rampal and Rahul Dev shared their own messages about on Cancer on World Cancer Day.

Getting back to work

Sonali Bendre who came back to India in the month of December after her cancer treatment in New York is back to work. The actress says that the feeling is surreal. She shared a photograph of herself on Instagram and the brave soul appears happy and relaxed. After getting back to work after her long, tiring and most of all challenging ordeal in New York she says that she feels an “additional sense of responsibility” and also feels “grateful” to be back at work in her Instagram post.

The Bollywood actress said that for the past couple of months her emotions were running high and now she is happy that she would be actually using her emotions for the purpose of acting. Words can’t describe how beautiful it feels to face the camera again said the ‘Sarfarosh’ actress.

Many actors commented on Sonali Bendre’s post after she published it on Instagram. "Now that's a moment," wrote Hrithik Roshan. "Loving that you are back in action. That means you can come for fish fry," Farah Khan wrote.

Bendre made it very clear that she would get back to work when she was undergoing treatment. She said that now she wanted to work every day of her life though at the beginning she didn’t know what she would do when she recovers from Cancer. She was quoted saying to Bombay Times, “I have realized in the last six months that if your brain is working at a fast pace and your body can’t keep up with it, then it can get really frustrating.” She also added that we would all come to that stage when our body won’t keep up with our brains and thus she wanted to make the most of the present moment.

She explained that she spent a lot of time with her son Ranveer which resulted in him turning out to be an independent child. He took the news of his mother having Cancer with the right spirit which only goes to prove that he can handle things on his own. Bendre explained that if she intends to raise her son into an independent person she needs to give him more space and this means that she would have to get back to work.

Bendre has become an inspiring icon of sorts after battling Cancer, encouraging others to take a step forward, inspiring those who are battling serious diseases, sharing tit-bits of her life’s journey with Cancer, the chemotherapy sessions, the pain after the sessions and above all finding love and strength from friends, family and followers.



