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Ananya Panday’s cousin Ahaan was transported to hospital in a thermocol box after being born 42 days premature: ‘It’s a filmy story’

Ananya Panday's cousin, Ahaan Panday, is all set to make his acting debut with a film produced by Aditya Chopra's YRF.

Ahaan Panday and Ananya Panday at Alanna Panday's wedding reception.

Actor Ananya Panday’s cousin, Ahaan Panday, is all set to make his debut in the film business with an upcoming romantic drama directed by Mohit Suri for Aditya Chopra’s YRF. In her latest vlog, Ahaan’s sister, social media influencer Alanna Panday, chatted with their mother Deanne about their birth. Deanne, who is married to Chunky Panday’s brother, Chikki Pandey, spoke about the horror she experienced while giving birth to Ahaan. She said that she was rushed to the hospital at the insistence of her in-laws, and was immediately given an emergency C-section because Ahaan was arriving over 40 days premature.

Alanna said in her vlog that she gets ‘anxiety’ every time she hears Ahaan’s birth story. “She’s never told this story publicly, and it’s so scary,” she said, allowing her mother to recall the experience in her own words. Deanne said, “Around 42 days before my due date, my water bags started leaking a little bit. And then it happened again, so we woke up dadi, and she called up a doctor, who said, ‘Take her to the hospital right now’.”

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She continued, “They did a sonography, all the water had come out by then, and Ahaan was in one corner, curled up. They took me to an emergency C-section, and when they got Ahaan out, he was as small as a rat. They took him away, and I passed out. When I woke up, I asked, ‘Where is my child’, and they told me that he’d been taken to the NICU in another hospital. I demanded that they take me there, even though I’d just been stitched up.”

Alanna said, “Mom missed a part. Ahaan was transported in a cooler. A thermocol box! This was back in the day, like 25 years ago. It’s such a filmy story”. Deanne added, “It was literally like a film story, they wrapped him up in a cloth, put him in the box, and dadi and nani rushed him to Nanavati… They were keeping me away from my child, and I went down in a wheelchair, a lot of pain, and they took me to the room…” She said that she noticed a little stick on the baby’s leg, because he’d suffered a hairline fracture. “This is what Ahaan has been through. I spent 10 days in hospital feeding him,” she said.

Alanna said that Ahaan is now 6 feet 3 inches tall, and she’s the tiny one despite having had a regular birth. Ahaan is set to make his acting debut in a movie titled Saiyaara, directed by Mohit Suri. The film also stars Aneet Padda, and will be released in July.

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