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Comedian performs without script after airline misplaces bag

Rajeev Nigam was reduced to tears when baggage containing his script and costume did not make it on time from Raipur to Mumbai on Sunday.

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Comedy Circus actor Rajeev Nigam, who has brought laughter to many households, was reduced to tears when the baggage containing his script and costume did not make it on time from Raipur to Mumbai on Sunday. The actor had to proceed to Pune for a performance minus it and even had to borrow a colleague’s jacket to make it on the stage.

On February 6, Nigam took a Jetlite Raipur-Mumbai flight S2 377 at 11am. He reached Mumbai at around 1pm and was waiting for his bag at the arrival terminal 1B. “I was supposed to reach Pune at 4.30pm and could not leave without taking my suitcase as it had the show’s script and costume,” says Nigam.

He waited at the terminal for an hour but he could not trace his bag. When he asked the airline staff at the counter, they told him that the luggage trolley carrying his bag is on its way.

“It was only at 2.30pm that they told me that my bag was misplaced at Raipur and was being sent to Mumbai by another flight which would arrive at 4.30pm,” he added.

Nigam had waited at the Mumbai airport till 2.30pm, as he wanted to go through his script while on his way to Pune. “But the bag did not reach and I decided to go to Pune without it as the show was important. The airline staff took my address and said that they will deliver it to my residence,” he said.

“I reached Pune around 6.30pm and just had an hour to prepare for the show. I borrowed the jacket of another artist and gave an impromptu performance. Thankfully, nothing went wrong but this experience has caused me lot of stress. Also, they sent my bag on Sunday night to another passenger’s house who stays at Nerul while I stay and Lokhandwala, Andheri. It’s Tuesday and that person is also not in town,” said Nigam.

He is now contemplating taking legal action against the airline. “These days the airlines do not let a passenger board when he reports even five minutes late. But they make us wait for hours for the baggage,” he added.

When contacted the spokesperson for Jetlite said that they will revert but did not.

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