 His stepfather, Alyque Padamsee, was a theatre actor and director who also headed an advertising company in Mumbai.He had one older sister named Rohini (c. 1951 – 26 September 1961), who died from nephritis.Chowdhry was admitted into Breach Candy Hospital, in Mumbai, on 14 April 2020 for a ruptured ulcer in the intestine, and underwent emergency surgery.