After Suffering Heart Attack, Actor Shreyas Talpade Undergoes Angioplasty

For the entire day, Talpade shot for the multi-starrer film 'Welcome to the Jungle', which is still in the underproduction stage.

New Delhi: Actor Shreyas Talpade was admitted to a hospital on Thursday night after he suffered a heart attack in Mumbai. The Iqbal actor was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Andheri West in an ambulance where doctors performed an angioplasty on him. The well-known actor is 47 years old. The incident occurred when Talpade was filming for the movie 'Welcome to the Jungle'. For the entire day, Talpade had been shooting the multi-starrer film which is still under production, Hindustan Times reported quoting a source. 

“He shot through the day, was fine and joking around with everyone on the set. He even shot sequences that had a bit of action. After finishing the shoot, he returned home and told his wife that he was feeling uneasy. She rushed him to the hospital but he collapsed on the way,” the source said.

Over a two-decade career, Shreyas Talpade has starred in more than 45 movies. For his roles in Hindi and Marathi films, Talpade has received a great deal of praise from critics and audiences alike.

With a huge ensemble cast that includes Akshay Kumar, 'Welcome to the Jungle' will feature Raveena Tandon, Disha Patani, Jacqueline Fernandez, Lara Dutta, Suniel Shetty, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Johny Lever, Kiku Sharda, Krushna Abhishek, Rahul Dev, and the singer-brothers Daler Mehndi and Mika Singh.

With the release of the movie 'Ajagratha', Shreyas will also make his feature film debut in India. This movie, pitched as a psychological crime thriller, is directed by M Shashidhar. Radhika Kumaraswamy, a Kannada actress, will portray the main role in this film. Samuthirakani, Radhika Kumaraswamy, V Jayaprakash, Vinaya Prasad, and other actors are part of the ensemble cast of 'Ajagratha'.