The quest for the macho persona and a pumped-up body that looks good from the outside but decays from within claimed one more life on Friday.
Popular TV actor Siddhaanth Surryavanshi, known for shows such as “Kkusum”, “Kasautii Zindagii Kay” and “Ziddi Dil Maane Na”, died on Friday after suffering a heart attack at a Mumbai gym. He was 46.
The cases of several young actors, particularly those hitting gyms and dying during exercise, have made not only the cine world but “health experts” sit up and take notice of the sudden collapsing of those who otherwise looked fine as a fiddle.
Surryavanshi, known to be a fitness enthusiast, was taken to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital at 12.30 pm on Friday where he was declared dead, hospital insiders said.
“They tried to revive him. In all probability, he suffered a heart attack while he was at the gym. This was told to the hospital by the family,” they said.
Surryavanshi, who earlier went by the name of Anand Suryavanshi, forayed into television with the 2001 show “Kkusum” and went on to star in daily soaps, including “Mamta”, “Grihasti” and “Waaris”. His last major TV role was this year in Sony SAB’s “Ziddi Dil Maane Na”.
The actor’s sudden demise sent shockwaves across the television industry with his colleagues Urvashi Dholakia, Gautam Rode, and Jay Bhanushali among others mourning the loss. Dholakia said she is still in disbelief.
“I had met him a year ago and he looked all good. He is into fitness and it is shocking to know about him. We would bond wherever we left from that point. It is something you fathom. I had met him on the sets of ‘Kasautii Zindagi Kay’,” the actor said.
Bhanushali took to Instagram where he posted a photo of Surryavanshi and wrote “Gone too soon”. Surryavanshi is survived by his wife, model Alesia Raut, and a daughter from his previous marriage. He got married to Raut in 2017. She also has a son from an earlier marriage.
His sudden death is the latest in a series of fit men, in the prime of their lives, who collapsed while exercising. South star Puneeth Rajkumar and comedy star Raju Srivastava also suffered heart attacks while working out. And we are only counting…
In June this year, Indian Filmmaker Raj Kaushal, husband to Actor Mandira Bedi, died of cardiac arrest after suffering a heart attack. He was only 49 years old at the time.
Deepesh Bhan, actor of the popular comedy serial “Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Ha” also suddenly collapsed and passed away at 41, on July 23, this year. He too was known as an excessive gym freak by his co-actors.
Actor Sidharth Shukla died on September 2, 2020, due to cardiac arrest. The heart attack happened to one who looked in the best of his health and again a fitness enthusiast.
Hailing from Mumbai Shukla started his career in modeling and became the first Indian and Asian to win World’s Best Model Contest in Turkey in 2005. The actor made his acting debut on the TV show “Babul Ka Anagann Chootey Na” on SonyTv. Shukla made his Bollywood debut in 2014 with the film “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania.” He became more popular, in 2019, after he participated in the TV reality show BiggBoss, where he was declared a winner in February 2020.
Zarina Roshan Khan, who became a household name from the TV serial “Kumkum Bhagya”, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 54 on October 24, 2020. She appeared in many TV serials like “Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai”, “Kumkum Bhagya”, “Vidya”. What is the reason for this growing epidemic of heart attacks in the young? In the past, such deaths were attributed to “lack of exercise” and now it seems to be the case of “excess”.
