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When Om Puri jumped to save Naseeruddin Shah’s life after blade attack
- Updated: January 9, 2017
Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah
New Delhi: That Om Puri was a tighten crony of Naseeruddin Shah is well-known, though tiny is famous about a time when a ‘Ardh Satya’ actor saved a latter’s life during a blade attack.
The occurrence during that Jaspal, one of Shah’s former friends, stabbed him with a blade during a restaurant, finds discuss in Shah’s journal ‘And Then One Day: A Memoir’. Shah writes in a book that Puri, who upheld divided recently following a cardiac arrest, had jumped opposite their cooking table, resigned a assailant to forestall serve strikes, took Shah to a sanatorium in a military van, and saved his life.
“While a sharpened for ‘Bhumika’ (1977) was on, Om and we were in a center of cooking when Jaspal, whom we had kept good divided from for some time now, also entered and greeted Om. We abandoned any other but, eyes bound on me, he upheld to lay on another list behind me, so we thought.”
“After a while, we was reminded of his participation by what felt like a brief pointy punch in a center of my back. we started to rise, wearily scheming myself for another free-for-all. Before we could move, Om with a strangled cry lunged during something behind me. we incited to see Jaspal holding a tiny knife, a indicate drizzling blood, his palm lifted to strike again, and Om and dual others grappling to overpower him,” he narrates a part in a book.”
As a feeble Shah struggled with pain, Puri dealt with Jaspal and argued with a hotel manager who refused Shah to be taken to a sanatorium until a military arrived.
“Om returned to surprise me that Jaspal had been taken to a kitchen and was being given a treatment. He wanted to take me to a alloy though was thwarted by a grill staff refusing to let us pierce compartment a military arrived.”
“A sizeable throng had collected by now, a flesh in my behind was commencement to go into spasm, blood was shower my shirt behind and had begun a swell down my trouser seat,” Shah writes in a book. He recalls how Puri had riled a policemen by climbing into a military outpost though accede before a “Ishqiya” actor was taken to a sanatorium in a draining condition.
“Om done a principal blunder of climbing in as good though accede and managed to rile a boss-man, thereby seeking a cops to be peaceful with me. He was systematic to get off and after substantial pleading with a goon in assign was authorised to stay. Neither of us had an thought where we were headed though we prayed it was not a military station.”
“The draining had not seized, a pain was removing heated and these cops apparently had not utterly accepted a situation. After a few cursory questions to us, and some inaudible transmissions over a radio in Marathi, we arrived during Cooper Hospital in Juhu,” a discourse notes.
Shah pronounced he was grateful to his “guardian angel” that Puri was benefaction during a occurrence to take assign and save his life.
Both actor, who were among a many distinguished faces of a ‘new call cinema'(1980s), not usually worked together in several films like “Maqbool” and “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron”, though also complicated together during a National School of Drama (NSD) and Pune’s Film and Television Institute (FTII).