Akshay Kumar kept calling Shreyas Talpade’s wife after actor’s near-fatal heart attack: ‘I just want to see him’

Actor Shreyas Talpade, who recently experienced a near-fatal heart attack, has opened up about how the Hindi and Marathi film industry stood behind them in those tough times. His wife Deepti Talpade revealed how Akshay Kumar kept calling her to enquire about Shreyas’ health and insisted on shifting him to a better hospital. Deepti said that filmmaker Ahmed Khan and his wife also visited the hospital at night. 

On ABP’s Majha Katta, Deepti said, “When the news broke out, Shreyas’ director Ahmed Khan and his wife came to the hospital at 11 pm at night. They were with me. Akshay Kumar, you know he kept calling me and asked, ‘Deepti should we shift him? You tell, we will shift him to a different hospital.’ He again called me in the morning and said, ‘let me please see him for two minutes. I just want to see him.’ I said, ‘you can come whenever you want.’ Hindi and Marathi film industry was there that day for us.”

Shreyas added, “The way they stood behind us, it was phenomenal.” In an interview with TOI, Shreyas had previously revealed that he was ‘clinically dead’ after the cardiac arrest and added that this was his second chance at life.

 

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Shreyas reportedly suffered a heart attack on the evening of December 14, after wrapping the shoot of ‘’Welcome To Jungle’ in Mumbai. Shreyas was rushed to Bellevue Hospital and the officials later confirmed that he underwent angioplasty at around 10 pm on the same day. 

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On the work front, Shreyas will next be seen in Welcome To The Jungle, also starring Akshay. He also has Kangana Ranaut’s directorial – Emergency in which he will play the role of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.