A Telugu film unit, which had a providential escape from the deadly earthquake in Nepal, suffered another tragedy when a young and upcoming choreographer named Vijay died in a road accident while on his way back to Kathmandu from the location of shooting at Kokra.
Vijay, who had gone to Nepal for the shooting of Telugu film ‘Etakaaram.com’ with a 20-member unit, died on the spot when his car turned turtle. Three other members of the unit were also injured.
Actor Maharshi, who is a part of the movie, but did not go to Nepal with the crew, said that the news was devastating for the entire team and he was leaving for Nepal to make arrangements to bring the deceased’s body back.
led by the director Veerander Reddy, the unit was busy shooting on Saturday morning when the earthquake struck Nepal forcing it to cancel the shooting. However, the team later resumed shooting and completed the four-day schedule.
Meanwhile, the earthquake in Nepal has left many families in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh anxious and worried about the well-being of their near and dear ones. Two people had gone to Nepal for climbing Mount Everest.
The family of P Neelima, a software engineer from Hyderabad, was nervously waiting for news about her whereabouts as she was untraceable since the earthquake.
Neelima, an employee of Cognizant Technology, had left Hyderabad on April 18 via Delhi along with a 21-member team from different parts of India for mountaineering. “She had last contacted us on April 22 and complained of intense cold. She told us that she was on her way to EBC and it will take another four days. Only later we came to know that she was talking of the Everest Base Camp”, her father Shouriah said.
Neelima had told her family over phone that the team of mountaineers was led by a woman and it also included one Neetu Desai from Delhi.
On Saturday evening, the family had received a call from a Bengaluru-based travel agency, which had arranged the tour, informing them that she was safe at Ding Chou village but after that there was no information and no response on the phone number, said her father. He appealed to the Government to help find her daughter.
Toni B Shukla, a resident of West Godavari district who had gone to Nepal for mountaineering, is missing. Toni had gone to Nepal on April 13. Jayamangal Janardhan, a Class X student was also missing.
Meanwhile, three more pilgrims from Khammam district, who had gone to visit the holy places of Nepal, went missing. P Satyanarayana, his wife Uma Devi and another relative Komaraiah had left for Kathmandu on April 21 and reached the destination on Saturday. On the same day, the family back home came to know about the earthquake and since then they have been frantically trying to get the information about them.
Two students from Plavancha in Khammam district D Srinivas and P Gayatrim, third year MBBS students at Bharatpur in Nepal are safe and on their way to India by bus.
Meanwhile, eight medical students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana studying at Bharatpur in Nepal reached Delhi safely on Monday and arrangements were being made to send them to their home towns. Four of them were from Hyderabad and others were from Warangal, Karimnagar, Vijaywada and Srikakulam.
Earlier, a group of 50 tourists from the two States had reached Hyderabad safely.