| | vickey.lalwani@mid-day.com | | KEEPING UP WITH SASHA: Iqbal Khan (right) with Chetan Hansraj on the Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai set on July 20 — the day before he fell ill | Want to become a TV actor? Prerequisites are the ability to shoot for days on end, without break, and a cast iron stomach, as actor Iqbal Khan found out.
Iqbal (Angad of Sony's Kaisa ye Pyar Hai) spent the whole of yesterday in Nanavati Hospital, Vile Parle, along with girlfriend Sneha and cousin Mustafa. Shot for 48 hours
Sources say Khan fainted because he shot continuously for 48 hours. He had earlier taken ten days off from his shooting commitments to visit his parents in Kashmir after a gap of two-and-a-half years. The trip tired him out, yet as soon as he returned, he had to finish filming a large portion of his scenes.
A few days ago, Shama Sikander (Pooja of Ye Meri Life Hai) too was hospitalised (twice in two days) because of physical exhaustion. Chicken, or stress?
Iqbal says it was food poisoning that led him to Nanavati. He says he ordered chicken at a shoot on Tuesday. "I told the spot boy to get me some chicken. I don't know where he bought it from, but that triggered it off. Physical fatigue was not the reason for my hospitalisation. I am a very fit man — I have even shot for 90 hours at a stretch, and nothing happened." Weak and dehydrated
"When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I had terrible diarrhoea. The motions just wouldn't stop. Soon, I started passing a lot of water," adds Iqbal.
The actor says he felt so dehydrated and weak that he called his girlfriend Sneha and cousin Mustafa to accompany him to Nanavati.
"Doctors advised me to get admitted, but I didn't. I love Kaisa ye Pyar Hai, it's my show," says the actor, who underwent a few tests and was put on a drip. "Thank God Sneha was around, nahin to meri vaat lag jati," he exclaims.
Khan resumed shooting yesterday, without taking even a day off for rest.
vickey.lalwani@mid-day.com |
Shama's fainting spell
When actress Shama Sikander fainted last month, her parents did not want her to report to the sets for some time.
But Shama had no choice. She reported to work the very next day. "I am the lead actress (in Ye Meri Life Hai) and I have many scenes," she explained.
While Shama said she was hospitalised due to exhaustion, Vipul D Shah, the producer of the show, maintained, "Shama is claustrophobic; if there is a big crowd around her, she feels suffocated." | |
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