{"id":295514,"date":"2026-02-21T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295514\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:03:09","slug":"ram-kapoor-admits-he-was-an-absent-father-for-nearly-10-years-gautami-took-over-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295514\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram Kapoor admits he was an \u2018absent father\u2019 for nearly 10 years: Gautami took over the children\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Ram Kapoor<\/a> has admitted that the soaring demands of his career once came at a personal cost, confessing that he was an \u201cabsent father\u201d for nearly a decade, to the point where his own children barely knew him growing up. <\/p>\n

\"RamRam Kapoor and Gautami Kapoor fell in love on the sets of their show, Ghar Ek Mandir, which aired from 2000 to 2002.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on those years, the actor didn\u2019t hold back in crediting his wife, Gautami Kapoor<\/a>, for holding the fort at home.<\/p>\n

Ram on being an absent father<\/p>\n

Ram spoke about his personal life when he joined his wife and actor Gautami Kapoor for an episode of Love Unscripted season 2 on YouTube<\/a>. They share two kids together.<\/p>\n

During the episode, Gautami revealed that they were not actively planning to have a baby when they had their eldest daughter, Sia. Talking about Gautami, Ram said, \u201cEverything new scares her. But I was thrilled.” To this, Gautami added, \u201cI was like, \u2018Are we going to have a baby? What are we going to do?\u2019 He was like, \u2018You leave it to me.\u2019 I was like, \u2018What do I leave to you?\u2019”<\/p>\n

Further elaborating, Gautami recalled that she conceived Sia at a time when Ram\u2019s career was witnessing a major upswing. She shared that he was largely occupied with work then, sharing, \u201cRam wasn\u2019t there. When I was pregnant with Sia, Ram had his biggest career surge. It felt like (goddess) Lakshmi had arrived. My pregnancy announcement changed Ram\u2019s fate forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here, Ram revealed it was during this time that he got Kasamh Se, which went on to become a huge hit. He admitted that he never had to look back on television after that, adding that Sia brought him all his luck.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the chat, Ram admitted that his children didn\u2019t know him for at least 10 years after they were born. He said, \u201cThe reason I am who I am is solely because of her. She took over the children and the house so amazingly that I didn\u2019t have to worry about it for a single day. That\u2019s why I could focus on my career for 15 long years and become what I have become. She is Mother India. She literally needs nobody. She does it all and won\u2019t allow anyone to come close. Any successful man is successful because he has a very strong woman who has allowed him to be successful. Otherwise, it\u2019s impossible. I never had to worry about my child. That\u2019s why I was absent. My children didn\u2019t really know me for 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Ram and Gautami<\/p>\n

Ram and Gautami fell in love on the sets of their show, Ghar Ek Mandir, which aired from 2000 to 2002. They got married on Valentine\u2019s Day (February 14) in 2003 and have two children – daughter Sia and son Aks. They have also starred together in films like Karan Johar\u2019s Student Of The Year and Saket Chaudhary\u2019s Shaadi Ke Side Effects.<\/p>\n

On the work front, Gautami was most recently seen in film De De Pyaar De 2 and web series The Ba***ds of Bollywood. Meanwhile Ram was seen in the role of a lawyer in Jolly LLB 3. He was also seen in the web show, Mistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Ram Kapoor has admitted that the soaring demands of his career once came at a personal cost,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,25954,163035,163034,409,111,139,69,11922,163036,77365],"class_list":{"0":"post-295514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gautami-kapoor","10":"tag-kasamh-se","11":"tag-love-unscripted","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-ram","17":"tag-ram-kapoor-father","18":"tag-sia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}