Nora Fatehi, Sonu Sood fly off to Bengaluru for this reason

Nora Fatehi and Sonu Sood, Pics/Yogen Shah

Nora Fatehi has replaced Madhuri Dixit-Nene on Dance Deewane 3. On Monday, the actor was spotted at Mumbai airport on her way to Bengaluru where the reality show is being shot due to the lockdown in the state. Sonu Sood, who features as a guest on the TV show, was also seen at the airport.

For the uninitiated, the Nora Fatehi dance number "Dilbar" has touched the one billion mark on YouTube, making her the first African Arab female artiste to achieve the feat. The superhit dance number features in the 2018 film "Satyamev Jayate". "'Dilbar' is an important song for a lot of people. It marked the beginning of a lot of careers and introduced me to the world!" said Nora.

Nora's dance is filmed on a recreated version of an original song from the 1999 release "Sirf Tum", which featured a superhit dance number by Sushmita Sen. The dance proved to be a turning point in Nora's career, commencing a streak of chartbusters and successful hits.

Talking of Sonu Sood, he recently arranged for a 25-year-old critically ill Covid patient to be airlifted in an air ambulance from Nagpur to Hyderabad for treatment. The patient Bharti is the daughter of a retired railway officer, and she has reportedly lost almost 85 to 90 per cent of her lungs owing to Covid-19. Sonu initially helped in shifting her to a private hospital in Nagpur. Doctors then suggested she needed a lung transplant.

The actor arranged for the patient to be airlifted to Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, for a treatment called ECMO, in which blood is artificially pumped into the body to take pressure away from the lungs.

"Doctors said the chances are 20 per cent, and asked me if I still wanted to go ahead with it. I said 'of course'. She is a 25-year-old young girl and will fight the battle hard and come out of it stronger. That's why we took this chance and decided to get an air ambulance. The treatment is going well in and we hope for the best," said Sonu.