The love and gratitude towards Bollywood actor Sonu Sood who played a Good Samaritan role for some stranded migrant workers of Kendrapada, made a Kerala migrant returnee of Rajnagar block to name his welding shop after Sood at Hatina.
Prasant Kumar Padhan,a resident of Chinchiri village under Rajnagar block, recently opened his welding shop naming his shop as Sonu Sood welding workshop. Pradhan had managed to reach at his native village in May alongwith other migrant workers of Rajnagar.
Praising Sood, Pradhan said, “As many as 167 Odia migrant workers, comprising of 147 women and 20 men, belonging to Rajnagar who were stranded at Ernakulam area of Kerala having bitter experience and suffering 70 days of difficulties due to Covid lockdown could return to Odisha on a special flight due to the help of Bollywood actor Sood. The 46-year-old actor Sood took permission from the State Governments to have Kochi and Bhubaneswar airports opened. He arranged a special aircraft from Bengaluru which airlifted us from Kerala to Bhubaneswar. ”
“I decided to name my welding shop after Sood as he is like a messiah for me,” added Pradhan. Interestingly, Sood had given him permission to use his name for the welding shop.