Following a near-fatal heart attack, Shreyas Talpade revealed how the Marathi and Hindi film industries helped him and his family through a difficult time. The actor and his spouse discussed on ABP’s Majha Katta how, following his cardiac arrest, his co-star in Housefull 2 Akshay Kumar offered to move the actor to a different hospital.

Deepti Talpade, Shreyas’ spouse, stated: “Akshay Kumar kept calling me and asking if we should move him. We’ll move him to a different hospital based on what you say. “Please allow me to see him for two minutes,” he said when he called me again in the morning. I simply wish to see him. “You can come whenever you want,” I said.

Speaking about what happened on the fateful day, Shreyas Talpade explained, “We were shooting in Mumbai at the SRPF grounds close to Jogeshwari for Ahmed Khan’s Welcome To The Jungle. We were doing army training sequences like swinging on a rope, falling into the water and everything was going smoothly…Suddenly, after the last shot, I felt breathless, and my left hand started paining. I could barely walk to my vanity van and change my clothes. I thought it was a muscle pull since we were shooting action sequences. You don’t think of the worst-case scenario, right? I had never experienced this kind of fatigue.”

Sharing further, the Iqbal actor said, “As soon as I got into the car, I felt I should head straight to the hospital, but thought I should go home first. My wife, Deepti, saw me in that state and within 10 minutes, we were on our way to the hospital [Andheri’s Bellevue]. We were almost there and could see the hospital gate, but the entry was barricaded, and we had to take a U-turn. The very next moment my face went numb, and I passed out. That was a cardiac arrest. My heart had stopped beating for those few minutes. Deepti couldn’t get out of the car from her side of the door as we were stuck in traffic, so she climbed over me and got to the other side to call for help. A few people came to our rescue and rushed me inside. The doctors did CPR, electrical shock, that’s how they revived me.”