Woman Suffocates to Death in Theatre during Pushpa–2 Movie Premier Show

Hyderabad: On December 4 night, a woman died of suffocation at Sandhya 70mm theater in Chikkadapally RTC Crossroads at 9.40 pm while Pushpa-2 premiere show was scheduled and huge crowd had gathered there to watch the movie as well as in the anticipation of getting a glimpse of the movies’ lead actors coming to the theatre.

However, there was no intimation from the side of theatre management or actors team that they will be visiting the theatre. The theatre management did not make any additional provisions regarding security to manage crowd. Nor there was any separate entry or exit for the actors’ team though the theatre management had information about their arrival.

Around 9.30 pm, actor Allu Arjun came to Sandhya theater with his personal security and the people gathered there tried to enter the theatre with him. His personal security team started pushing the public which further aggravated the situation as there was already huge gathering at the theatre.

Taking advantage of the situation along with the actor and his security team, a large number of people entered inside the lower balcony area. One Revathi, wife of Bhaskar, aged 35 years from Dilshuknagar and her son Sreethej around 13 years felt suffocated due to large public influx and immediately the police personnel who were on duty pulled them out of the public from the lower balcony and performed CPR to her son and shifted them to the nearby Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital. The doctor of the Hospital informed that she was dead and her son Sri Tej was advised to be shifted to another hospital for better treatment.

On the incident, a case has been booked under Section 105,118(1) read with 3(5) BNS Act in Chikkadpally Police Station based on the complaint of the family members of the deceased person and is being investigated. Stringent action as per law will be taken against all the persons responsible for the chaotic situation inside the theatre leading to the death of a person and injury to others, said Dy Commissioner of Police, Central Zone, Hyderabad.