Late actor Pankaj Dheer's 'Mahabharat' co-star, Puneet Issar, recently revealed that Dheer was on the road to recover from cancer, but the disease relapsed last year. He said, "He recovered once, but unfortunately, it relapsed last year, and he had been undergoing treatment since then. Today, I've lost my brother." Dheer is survived by his wife Anita and son Nikitin.