Actor Shamita Shristi Sharma admitted to Mumbai hospital in a critical condition

MUMBAI: Thirty-five-year-old regional film actor Shamita Shristi Sharma was rushed to a local Cardiac Care hospital in Mumbai after she fell unconscious, minutes after complaining of chest pain and dizziness.

She was shooting for an ad-film for a popular furniture brand on Saturday evening at a bungalow at Madh island near Malad West in suburban Mumbai when her health suddenly deteriorated. The shoot which started at noon went on till late night.

At around midnight, Shamita complained of chest pain and dizziness and asked for water. She collapsed after a few minutes and was rushed to a nearby hospital at 12.10 am and immediately admitted in the cardiac unit of the hospital with a very weak and irregular pulse.

After the sudden deaths of Sidharth Shukla and Puneeth Rajkumar due to heart-related issues, Shamita’s family is extremely worried, because doctors who attended to her at the hospital said she had suffered a heart attack on the sets, which caused her to loose consciousness.

Fortunately, the attack was not a fatal one and she was admitted to the cardiac ICU within 15 minutes, which saved her life.

However, her condition is still very critical and she is on life-support systems including a heart bypass machine, fighting for her life.

Besides regional films in Marathi and Tamil, 35-year-old Shamita Shristi Sharma is into fashion-related events since the last few years, has done hundreds of print shoots and regional films in the last ten years. She currently lives in Mumbai.