Bengali film-maker Srijit Mukherji has been admitted to AIIMS Trauma Centre after he met with an accident on Wednesday.
“He was hurt in his ankle badly and had suffered injury with minor fracture in his left foot. He was travelling in an autorickshaw which overturned on Tuesday night following which he was brought here,” said a senior doctor at AIIMS.
Mukherji was in the Capital to attend the 62nd National Film Awards ceremony during which he was awarded the best director and best original screenplay for his film Chotushkone.
“He has undergone a preliminary surgery of 3-4 hours of his left foot and he is recuperating well,” the doctor added. The 37-year-old, also a former economist, is known for his Bengali films like Autograph, Baishe Srabon, Hemlock Society, Mishawr Rawhoshyo, and Jaatishwar