Indian actor, Rahul Vohra, 35, dies of COVID-19 after a helpless post calling for help on May 9th. He was a popular name on the digital platform in India.
He had posted a helpless post on his social media account ahead of dying in which he said that he talked about his ill health and wished he could be saved. His friends and family had tried their best to save him but his lungs were damaged.
In his last post, Rahul wrote, “Mujhe bhi accha treatment mil jaata to mai bhi bach jaata tumhara IRahul Vohra.” Sharing details of himself as the patient, Rahul further wrote, “Jald janam lunga or acha kaam karunga. Ab himmat haar chuka hu (I will be reborn and do some good work. Now, I have lost all courage).
Actor Rahul Vohra died due to covid, hours after tagging Modi & Sisodia in a fb post seeking better treatment. SYSTEM killed him. It's terrible! pic.twitter.com/NfWMRn2gIK
— Suraj Kumar Bauddh (@SurajKrBauddh) May 9, 2021
Dear @SonuSood please help rahul Vohra . He is very young actor and struggling for treatment please help. pic.twitter.com/8OlpSrOOmv
— pratik kumar (@pratik_sriv) May 8, 2021
In his post, he had tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
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His colleagues and actors whom he worked with expressed condolence on his death. One of his colleagues, Amit Pachori, said that he tried his best to save him but could not.
Arvind Gaur, his friend, and colleague, wrote in his post, “Rahul Vohra is gone, my talented actor is no more. It was only yesterday that he told me his life could have been saved if he got better treatment. He was shifted to Ayushman, Dwarka last evening but we could not save him. Please forgive us, we are all your culprits. My last respects (sic).”
Rahul Vohra is survived by his wife, Jyoti Tiwari, who used to act and penned scripts for his videos. He has left behind a massive social media following. Vohra had amassed 1.9 million followers on Facebook, and his videos used to reach 100 million views. He had even acted in the Netflix film Unfreedom.