In a shocking turn of events, a fan of Telugu star Prabhas died while he was trying to fix a banner of the star’s upcoming film Saaho at a theatre in Telangana. The deceased has been identified as Venkatesh Nayak and the unfortunate incident took place at Mahbubnagar. Reportedly, he came in contact with a live cable wire and was electrocuted on the spot while he was trying to fix the poster of the film. He also suffered a nasty fall from the building.

A video of the incident was also shared by those standing by which has swiftly gone viral on social media. The video shows that the man was standing close to a transformer and he fell as soon as he was electrocuted. The theatre officials had immediately informed the cops about the incident who rushed to the spot to investigate the issue.

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Saaho also stars Shraddha Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mandira Bedi, Jackie Shroff, Murli Sharma, Arun Vijay, Chunky Panday, Mahesh Manjrekar and others. Directed by Sujeeth the film is slated to release on August 30. The film is multilingual and will release in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. For the first time Prabhas has dubbed his dialogues in Hindi as well.

(Source: Twitter)