Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Raees By Rail’ took a tragic turn on Monday night after one person died due to cardiac arrest, when he was at the Vadodara railway station to catch a glimpse of the superstar.
Farid Khan Pathan, who visited the railway station with his wife and daughter, fell unconscious after suffering a cardiac arrest at the railway platform. The incident is said to have occurred because a huge crowd had gathered at the railway station, which led to suffocation and the eventual cardiac arrest.
While we do not have confirmed reports if any security arrangements were in place for a visit to the railway station by a major superstar, the police is said to have resorted to lathi charge to disperse the crowd during which some people were left injured and bleeding.
There are reports that two Railway police officials were also injured during the chaos.
Official Statement from the Railway Police (via The Hindu):
At around 10.30 p.m. the train arrived at platform number six of the station and halted for 10 minutes. Shah Rukh’s fans had gathered in large number to have a glimpse of the actor who had boarded the train from Mumbai and is going to Delhi as part of the promotional campaign for his film.
The crowd went berserk when the train halted and began banging its window panes and even falling on top of each other. Police had to resort to mild lathi-charge to control the crowd. When the train started moving, people started running along with it. Due to the rush, one person died of breathlessness and two policemen posted there to control the crowd were injured”
Shah Rukh Khan’s Statement on the incident:
We started the journey thinking we all will travel, spend time with each other when one of your own loses someone on trip like this, it saddens us all.
One of our colleagues was traveling with us. Her uncle came down to see her at Baroda. He suffered from a cardiac arrest. It was really unfortunate.
We have some of our people with the family members there. Hopefully God will bless her soon.
On behalf of everyone, our prayers and blessings with the whole family. She has reached there. I just spoke to her. I think the burial is in an hour or half hour.
Shahrukh Khan promotes Raees by Rail
Shahrukh Khan’s Raees by Rail promotion
SRK Mumbai Station
Vadodara Raees SRK Railway Station
One Death
By the way #RaeesByRail has turned into a national even already . Don’t know what will happen when he reaches Delhi …!
World biggest star my foot, Trains are public place even if aftab visits people will still come out in huge number, you don’t see Rajni,Aamir or Salman resorting to these cheap idiotic publicity.
@Baba 12:57 pm :
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This comment has nothing to do with the clash between Kaabil and Raees but this is something what I feel as a common man .
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And I don’t understand why this “common man” in you wakes up only when the person in question is SRK.
Why do you wear this mask of an “Innocent” spectator? No body has stopped you, come out and show your hate for SRK to the world.
And don’t think that I am posting this comment just after reading your 15:57 pm comment. But this comment is a culmination of my observations which I have made vis-a-vis your comments regarding SRK in past few days (or say months).
That’s the most dumbest choice to promote the film on. And after someone has died Stupid srk fans are talking about SRK’s stardom. Absolutely everyone knows railway station is always full with peoples whenever time but who will explain to these stupid fans.
Most stupid fan base for a reason
Unfortunate incident , pray for the departed soul ? Lapse on the power of police , no fault of srk
My i.d is changed from ‘prince charm’ to ‘rustom jang’..Indicine what will b impact of this death on raees box office..bo0st or decline..
actor should think about this
before travelling in train
becoz of srk whole passengers of train suffered
many passenger didn’t get train because of huge crowd
Paid crowd
salman and aamir are good they don’t do these cheap tricks to promote
they only concentrate on making good film
Main tere kaabil hu ya
tere kaabil nahi
tis movie wil pierce ur heart
#sayno2rice
I am sure that some guys were plantd by rice team/srkay to create problems to make it a big issue like what our political parties do…a proper investigation shud b done…truth wil b out rice inside jail
dont blame srk is for this its not his fault its the fault of police who cant control this situation
how shameless creature are these srkfans… ek aadmi maar gaya hai aur srk ki stardom ke gun ga rahe hai… disgusting… nd wht type of stupid promotion event is this in railway station… go work on ur script nd acting instead of these stupid stuff..
it was the fault of police who couldnt control only fools will say its fault of srk police did lathi charge thats why all this happened
my deep condolences to victims family but its also his mistake to same extent as when he had cardiac arrest he shouldnt have gone in so much rush to see srk he must have avoided it as he was suffering from major disease
atlast srk can issue statement and can pay compensation even though it was not his fault and can sort this matter
All I can say is this idea of promotion was stupid!
but anyways it was a good promotional camp though see the craze of srk its unmatchable
Look how pathetic Srk fans are, someone died, several injured and they are calling it Srk stardom, talking about Raees and it’s Advance booking, have some shame losers and don’t talk about Raees, atleast in this article…..Shame on Srk fans, Pathetic Fan base ever…..
And don’t know what Raees PR team was thinking, and if they really want to do this, then they have to take some extra precautions……
Srkay: aa raha hoon
crowd
[with stones in their hand]:aye gaa na darre ka toh nahi
pathar phek ke seekar kare ge
Such huge gathering can be seen everytime the major superstar appears in crowded places.its not a big deal.I have seen so many celebs gets unprecedented love in Delhi malls (especially khans,hr n akki).so srk fans don’t make it a big issue as if only srk can make such big gathering.its about the tragedy that struck n its better for us to talk about the tragedy here.may his soul rest in peace.
Stupid promotional event. Nothing is bigger than d life of a human. Srk does everything these days for d promotion. Next will b pluto promotion.
SRK haters got another chance to bashing him. Unfortunate incident by the way.
It was wrong decision. SRK doesn’t have to prove anything. I think he should learn from Aamir Khan how to promote movies. Aamir never go overboard. Sometimes the promotions were so low scale that we wondered. I think he is under pressure to deliver blockbuster. It’s a high time to work with new directors, writers. Although Fan was good but still I felt it should have emotional story rather thriller.
Anyway whatever happened is very sad. My condolences are with diseased family.
Look I am SRK fan but… Yahan PE mat bolo SRK ke craze k bare me yr koi death ho gya hai…
@xzone:
Lol Baba Sakshamanand what a name lmao …!
By the way he is SRK hater everyone knows that but the problem is he is too scared to face SRK fans hence he uses a curtain to hide himself ..!!
Why ‘mild lathi charge’…?
Everyone knows these fans deserve ‘heavy handed severe lathi charge’
This is the reason we don’t like SRK as much as Salman. SRK will even kill people for publicity and in name of promotion. Who the hell hop on to train to get publicity ? Railway stations are mostly crowded and he went there for publicity bheek causing one death.
modi did demonetisation many people died and no news media covered it and one small accident in which there is name of srk and media losses their minds cmon incidine publish this.
Really sad
Dont know what To say. ..
Rip