NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JAN 18
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi sustained grievous injury in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Raigad district in Maharashtra on Saturday afternoon. Her husband Javed Akhtar who was also travelling in the car did not suffer any injury.
The accident took place around 3.30 p.m. near Khalapur, about 60 kilometres from Mumbai, when the Tata Safari SUV the 69-year-old actor was travelling in, rammed a truck from behind.
Photos of the incident show Shabana Azmi being helped out of the rear seats of the SUV, her face and eyes swollen.
Such was the impact that the front passenger’s side of the SUV was completely destroyed. A photo shows the bonnet of the car crumpled and the radiator and bonnet wrecked.
Shabana Azmi was rushed to MGM hospital in Navi Mumbai and is undergoing treatment, according to Raigad Superintendent of Police Anil Paraskar.
Shabana Azmi, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 and National Film Award five times, is known for her work in Ankur, Arth, Mandi among other films.
