MUMBAI: India's Got Talent fame Vinod Thakur, who became a national sensation, courtesy his differently-able dance skills, has suffered a mild heart attack. While the talented thespian was on his way to Gateway of India, he collapsed and was admitted to IC in serious condition.

Vinod was on a wheelchair journey attempting to make a Guinness World Record from ‘India Gate’ to ‘Gateway of India’. He collapsed near Malad in the wee hours of Sunday morning. He was rushed to the Raksha Hospital at Malad.

TellyChakkar dug deep to find out more information regarding his accident.

Vinod, according to media reports, was hospitalized due to dehydration; however, our exclusive information says a different tale. Flynn Remedios, who is Vinod’s publicist and is with him at this crucial stage, shared what exactly occurred. Vinod was enrooting to Gateway of India from Surat for which he had to take a highway. However, he took the link road.

Flynn shared the ordeal, “He took the link road route instead of the highway. The link road is so bad because of the Metro work with huge potholes. Since he was on the road for last 40 days, he was exhausted. Owning to the digging, the roads have turned really bad. There was a huge pothole, thanks to the Metro work. His bike (wheelchair) hit a pothole. He toppled. He was already weak and fatigued, that is when his bike hit the pothole and toppled over. He completely collapsed.”   

Remedios also mentioned that they didn’t wish to bring this topic out. He said, “We didn’t want to speak about it but it’s a fact.”

Flynn is with Thakur constantly when he is on the hospital bed. Talking about his condition, Flynn added, “He will be discharged in two days. He is on ventilator currently. Last night he suffered two heart attacks though minor ones, due to his BP issue. He was given electric shocks to push up his heart. Shocks were given to pump his blood pressure. ECG shows he has irregular heartbeats. His heart was almost on failure so he was given shock to revive.”

To take raise the voice of Mumbaikars against BMC's appalling work, Flynn and the NGO is planning to do a wheelchair rally against the bad roads. 

Thakur is a dancer, performer and stunt master and also plays wheelchair cricket. We hope for his speedy recovery and pray that he gets well soon.