Zayed recalls father Sanjay Khan’s near-fatal fire accident

Actor-filmmaker Sanjay Khan’s beingness changed everlastingly successful 1989 erstwhile a monolithic occurrence broke retired connected the sets of The Sword of Tipu Sultan astatine Premier Studios successful Mysore. The tragic incident, sparked by faulty firefighting systems and neglected information protocols, claimed 52 lives and near Sanjay Khan with implicit 65% third-degree burns.

The seasoned prima endured a harrowing recovery, undergoing 74 surgeries implicit the pursuing years.In a heartfelt interrogation with Siddharth Kannan, Sanjay’s son, histrion Zayed Khan, opened up astir witnessing the trauma arsenic a kid and the resilience his begetter displayed successful its aftermath.“I didn’t recognise him astatine first”“It was precise pugnacious due to the fact that I was lone 11 years old,” Zayed recalled. “I retrieve erstwhile helium was yet brought to the infirmary aft a month—I was dying to spot him.

My parent said, ‘Go accidental hi.’ There were 2 beds successful the ICU, some with pain victims. I passed the archetypal furniture reasoning helium was successful the second, and suddenly, from behind, a manus raised and called out, ‘Zayed.’”What followed was a infinitesimal etched successful Zayed’s representation forever. “At first, I didn’t admit him. His caput was swollen similar a football, his tegument virtually melting into the sheets. He hadn’t adjacent seen himself successful the reflector yet.

He held my manus and asked, ‘Zayed, are you scared?’ I couldn’t accidental a word. Then helium said thing intolerable successful that moment—‘Before you cognize it, I’ll physique a amended infirmary than this truthful that radical similar maine don’t person to travel here… and you don’t person to spot maine similar this.

I’ll marque Tipu Sultan again, and we’ll person a large clip together, my son.’”Zayed said that portion the doctors had fixed up hope, his father’s interior spot defied each odds.

“He was made of steel—his psyche and bosom were thing other entirely.”A triumphant instrumentality aft 74 surgeriesTwo years later, Sanjay Khan proved the doubters wrong. “He got backmost connected a equine aft undergoing 74 surgeries,” Zayed revealed. “He completed Tipu Sultan, and past took maine to Bangalore. He bought onshore there, handed maine the archetypal brick—the instauration brick—and asked maine to sanction it. I named it Golden Palms. And later, helium built a edifice there.”On the enactment front, Zayed Khan is presently gearing up for a comeback with the OTT movie The Film That Never Was.