New Delhi: Mukesh Khanna, who played the titular of Shaktiman in popular superman series and reprised the unforgettable Bhishma Pitamah in ‘Mahabharat’ is in utter shock after his death hoax started making round on the internet. The actor said that his phone has been constantly ringing since the past two hours with people enquiring if he is alive after the rumours widespread on the internet.
“I am perfectly alright. I have been asked to quash these rumours and I reproach people who spread such false news. This is the problem with social media. Your prayers are with me, so what can happen to me. Thank you so much for your concern, I have been receiving a lot of phone calls. So I thought I should tell my audience that I am perfectly alright,” he said in the video.
He later expressed his exasperation in a conversation with ETimes, “I am fed up, literally fed up. I don’t know what to say or do to rumour mongers who are out on such futile exercises which cause only fear, chaos and anxiety. Almost all my friends and relatives have called by now and one fan said he was relieved as he just had a terrible thing in his life when his mother passed away 20 days ago.”
The 62-year-old actor also revealed that comedian Raju Shrivastav had called him inquiring if the death rumours were true.
Meanwhile, on the work front, the actor last year announced that he is going to turn the superhero series into a trilogy.
