Mumbai hostage stand-off has eerie similarities to 2022 movie ‘A Thursday’

The three-hour stand-off on Thursday through which a person, Rohit Arya, held 17 youngsters and two individuals hostage in Mumbai’s Powai has eerie similarities to a 2022 Hindi movie.

A Thursday, that includes actress Yami Gautam whose character kidnaps 16 youngsters and two individuals at a faculty, was additionally primarily based in Mumbai. The title of the movie displays that day the kidnapping occurs within the film, a Thursday.

Within the movie, Gautam performs a faculty instructor named Naina, whose college is situated reverse her residence.

Mother and father drop off their youngsters on the college and Naina asks a guardian to ship over a cake for his or her daughter’s birthday celebration. The motive force who delivers the cake can also be taken hostage, together with a helper who returns to the varsity to search for her cell phone.

Naina calls the police and tells them that she has taken 16 youngsters hostage.

Rohit Arya, who was on the centre of the hostage disaster shot in Mumbai on Thursday, had contacted dad and mom from varied places underneath the pretext of conducting an audition.

One household stated that Arya had advised them that the audition at Ra Studio in Powai’s Mahavir Classik constructing would final for 3 days. Arya allegedly locked the kids inside together with two adults.

He then launched a video saying that his calls for have been “easy and ethical and moral”.

“I’m not a terrorist and shouldn’t have any financial calls for, and my calls for aren’t immoral in any respect,” he stated within the video.

Arya had acquired a authorities contract to hold out the Swachhata Monitor cleanliness drives at faculties and claimed that he needed to be paid Rs 2 crore that the Maharashtra schooling division owed him, reported Hindustan Occasions.

He stated he needed to debate these with “sure individuals”, however didn’t title anybody particular.

In A Thursday, Naina calls for to talk with the prime minister, the character performed by Dimple Kapadia.

However the similarities between the real-life disaster and the movie finish right here. After negotiations with Arya failed, the police entered the studio and shot him useless when he pointed his air gun on the hostages.

Within the film, directed by Behzad Khambata and launched on Disney Hotstar in 2022, the police first attempt to negotiate with Naina however she is later arrested.

The incident

On Thursday, Datta Nalawade, the deputy commissioner of police, advised PTI that the police had acquired a name at about 1.45 pm a few man holding the kids hostage contained in the studio.

He stated that cops, together with personnel from the short response crew, bomb detection and disposal squad and the hearth brigade, arrived on the web site quickly after.

Nalawade stated that the police tried to barter with Arya, PTI reported.

Nevertheless, when the talks made no headway, a police crew entered the studio by means of the toilet, the officer stated.

Arya threatened to make use of an explosive chemical and pointed an air gun on the hostages. That’s when Assistant Sub-Inspector Ashok Waghmare shot Arya, reported NDTV. Arya was taken to the Jogeshwari trauma hospital with a chest damage and was declared useless.

Schooling division’s dues

Arya was an activist and labored within the schooling sector. He was the challenge director for Challenge Let’s Change Swachhata Monitor and labored with the Maharashtra authorities on cleanliness drives in faculties.

In 2024, he held a starvation strike in Pune as a result of he alleged that his dues had not been paid, reported The Indian Categorical.

Former state Schooling Minister Deepak Kesarkar stated he had personally given Arya a cheque.

The schooling division claimed that Arya’s dues have been pending as a result of his paperwork and documentation was not so as.

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