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.
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@ navina, abe rascal one person died in this incident.and u are telling this a ‘nautanki’. Just go to hell u moron animal.
This is shows fear of Srk from Kaabil, srk responsible for person’s death & srk should go to jail & Raees stop from release.
i wonder how foolish and heartless some people in india are here one man has lost his life while receiving one of his relative from the station and srk fans are enriching this moment by thinking that srk fanbase is back and all bullshit … shameless
@jhand abhishek
We are forced to believe it a nautanki. Cz you kabariwalas are celebrating it & chanting that gangu teli’s stardom is proven…!
Shame on you Indicine, you don’t even write a condolence note for the deceased and keep concentrating on degrading SRK.
You guys should have been at the railway station yesterday to see SRK mania. My heart filled condolences to the family of the deceased, Farheed Khan Pathan, a local politician from Vadodara, who succumbed to a cardiac arrest after the crowd went ballistic on spotting the superstar.
Even Gods of cinema were frightened with the heights of stardom of a simple man from Delhi – SRK!
@Navin : ROFL !! All comments are hilarious.
@ Faulty remote control : Who the h@ll promotes movies on Railway station ? Only a publicity ka bhooka can do this causing mishap. Your idol thinks his luck will be back like he came from Delhi to Mumbai without ticket during his initial days. Also first learn the difference between accident on a road and causing death in name of publicity on a public place like Railway Station. Salman will never stoop so low to kill people and promote his movies.
I had decided not to bash SRK, Raees and its articles but here comes the most pathetic way of promotion to. SRK proved that Dhande se koi badaa nahi hota even if one of his fan dies who cares. He loves dhanda after NRI weddings mein Dhande karne wala !!!!!!!!!!!!
@Shame less Phenomenal idiot : First honor your own words and later cry with stardom songs over a person’s death. If you are a man of your own words you will stop commenting using The Phenom id and will change it to Phenomenal idiot. Dangal ki bet yaad hai ??
you can make better movies without srk but u cant be a better superstar than srk
@navin
top class comedy
I’ve gone through some of the comments posted out here and even though I’m just a casual reader and have never felt like commenting but the abominable gits who are comparing someone’s death to the so called “super stardom” of SRK is utterly horrendous. Get a life morons.
@ tiger ,did SRK killed that person ?he died as he had breathing problems.and what about a person killed by your gangu teli’s car ? Was he not innocent ?u all want
Anyhow Raees screening had been stopped ? That’s it.
srk have great stardom
if he know that thing he shld also arrange security
Sad news. This shows fans love for srk.
@tiger
@hrithik
@ultron
Thanks guys
Its times like these when we need to keep reminding paglapurians that mass hysteria, youtube views n online polls mean very little when it comes to the boxoffice…!
I guess SRK was hiding in boogie toilet after seeing such a chaos and shouting ‘Meenamma Meenamma’ for help !!!!!!!!!!! ROFL
@jhand abhishek
Are you ANDHI or what? When did I blame tour porki gangu teli for the incident??? I just asked you kabariwalas to stop celebrating someone’s death as your victory. What’s wrong in it???
This is mixture of Chennai Express & Fan movie. From Chennai Express here is Railway Station & srk in train & from Fan movie his fan’s death.