It has been a week since the tragic crane accident that happened at the sets of Shankar’s Indian 2, but, the impact is still huge and traumatic. The accident killed three important talents in the team, Sri Krishna (Assistant Director), Madhusudhan (Production Assistant) and Chandran (Art Assistant) and it took the whole industry by shock. Kamal Haasan and Lyca Productions announced financial aid to the families of the deceased. Following that, director Shankar took to Twitter this evening to share his traumatic experience and he sounded completely dejected.

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This is the first time, he is coming out with a statement about the incident and he seems to be very disturbed. In the tweet, Shankar mentioned that it would have been better if the crane had fell on him, rather than the other three people who lost their lives. Shankar also added that he is still in a deep state of shock. The incident has definitely left a huge impact on the entire team of Indian 2.

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It is not yet known as to when the shooting will resume, but going by the current scene of events, it looks like the team will take a few more days to come back to normalcy. Bankrolled by Lyca Productions, Indian 2 features Kamal Haasan, Kajal Aggarwal, Siddharth, Priya Bhavanishankar, Rakul Preet Singh, Nedumudi Venu, Vivekh, Bobby Simha in the star cast and has music scored by Anirudh Ravichander. Check out Shankar’s tweet below:

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