Suniel Shetty hailed after feat in 1996 incident goes viral, Athiya says, 'didn't know'

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, words like ‘stranded’ and ‘rescue’ are being witnessed. Be it donating to various relief funds or help to daily w workers and needy, efforts of celebrities have become a talking point. Close to 25 years ago, Suniel Shetty did so too, but scale of gesture was more massive.

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Suniel Shetty helped rescue 128 sex workers from Mumbai’s Kamathipura, and helped m travel to Nepal in 1996.  A story by a video platform was recently published, after which video started doing rounds on actor’s fan clubs on Twitter.

In video, a woman is heard saying that after police h cordoned off area and rescued sex workers on February 5, 1996, those from Nepal were in limbo because Nepal government refused to accept m for t having birth certificates or citizenship cards. woman revealed that Suniel arranged flight tickets for sex workers to help m go to Nepal.

Here’s video

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Hate Story 2 actor Jay Bhanushali marvelled at story, sharing how Suniel h never mentioned it to him despite meeting so many times. He termed it as ‘class’ and conveyed his love and respect to his ‘anna.'

 As a tre analyst also hailed ‘ble act’ and t kwing about it, Suniel’s daughter Athiya Shetty also replied that she h t heard about it eir.

As video went viral, Suniel opened up on it in an interview with an entertainment portal and said that he was t only one who h participated in initiative n. He stated that his mor-in-law’s NGO that helped children, Naresh Goyal’s Jet Airways, Mumbai Police and Shiv Sena government at that time all played a major role. y all decided to do in a low-key manner, and y have kept it so even after successful rescue. 

Meanwhile, Darbar star recently featured in Gully Gang song with Akshay Kumar and ors to urge all to stay at home. He has also been attempted cooking recently and quipped about ‘burning calories.’ 

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