20-yr-old loses dream to break handi, may lose job

Twenty-year-old Nilesh Walia was unlucky when he climbed on top of the human pyramid at Nagpada.

It was to be his third conquest for the day, but now with a broken hip and head injury, he might even lose his job. 

After successfully breaking two dahi handis back to back, Walia was about to complete a hat-trick.

Unfortunately, before he could gain his balance, the man underneath him fidgeted and Walia toppled down from nearly seven feet.

He was rushed to Nair Hospital. “It has been my dream to have a hat-trick of three dahi handis back to back. I was so close to breaking it, and the next moment I was falling down. But now I may lose my job. As a salesman, I will not be able to go to work for at least a few weeks,’’ he said.