When Priyanka & Zayed got stuck!

by Subhash K Jha

This could one for the Guinness book…Four of Bollywood's biggest stars were stuck in an immobile flight on Delhi airport for nearly six hours.

The stars who were returning from Delhi to Mumbai on Saturday evening after their Temptations concert had the most most harrowing time of their lives.

Exhausted and barely able to speak, Priyanka recounts the experience on Delhi airport.

"It's really funny. But Zayed was supposed to take an earlier flight which Shah Rukh left on. But Zayed decided to be a sport. He didn't want to break the team. So he chose to travel with me, Rani, Esha and the rest. After what happened I'm sure Zayed would think twice before being generous. While the earlier flight left on time, we got into the 7.40 flight on Saturday evening …and finally left Delhi at 11 am on Sunday."

So what happened? "When we got into flight everything was fine. Shah Rukh messaged to say his flight had taken off. We hop skipped and jumped on board.Within ten minutes the entire airport was enveloped in the thickest fog. We waited patiently for a clearance."

"The clock ticked way….We didn't feel the pressure of delay since we had two singers Abhijeet Sawant and Shweta Pundit as part of our team. And since I'm fond of singing, I didn't mind playing antakshari on board. That kept us going for a couple of hours."

Finally at 1.30 Priyanka and the other passengers de-boarded and booked into a hotel.

"We checked in at the hotel at around 2 am and caught the flight back in the morning. I haven't slept for five days. I had just landed from a concert in Dubai before leaving immediately for the concert in Delhi. Now what I really want is to sleep," Priyanka said on Sunday afternoon.

This was her second tryst with an inordinate flight delay from Delhi to Mumbai. Two months ago after a plane skidded off the Mumbai airport, Priyanka was left circling the airport for several hours.

"Why do these things keep happening to me?" Priyanka wailed, before crashing out.