Shreyas Talpade opens up after suffering heart attack: 'Jaan hai to jahaan hai...'

Shreyas Talpade suffered a heart attack on December 14.

Bollywood actor Shreyas Talpade, who recently underwent an angioplasty after suffering a heart attack, recounted his terrifying experience. In an interview with Times of India, he opened up about his health scare and revealed that he was “clinically dead” for a few minutes that day. He also mentioned that he had been working since he was 20 and his family had a history of heart ailments.

The actor, 47, said that for the last few months he had been feeling extremely fatigued after work and because of the history of heart diseases in his family, he started taking medications and precautions.

He recounted what went down on December 14 and said, “Suddenly, I felt breathless and my left hand started paining. I could barely walk to my vanity van and change my clothes. I thought it was a muscle pull since we were shooting action sequences. You don’t think of the worst-case scenario, right? 'I had never experienced this kind of fatigue.' As soon as I got into the car, I felt I should head straight to the hospital, but thought I should go home first. My wife, Deepti, saw me in that state and within 10 minutes, we were on our way to the hospital.”

By the time he reached the hospital, his face had gone numb and he suffered a heart attack.

The doctors revealed that Talpade was smiling throughout the angioplasty and kept asking for forgiveness from his wife for putting her through such an ordeal. He further added how the scary experience changed his outlook towards life.

“I was clinically dead for a couple of minutes...I was never hospitalised before in my life, not even for a fracture so I didn't see this coming. Don't take your health for granted. Times are so uncertain that you must give extreme importance to your health. If that falls apart, nothing else matters. Jaan hai toh jahaan hai. An experience like this changes your perspective towards life,” Talpade said.