Bengal

Bengali actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee, 43, drowned in the sea at Talsari beach in Odisha during a soap opera shoot, leaving behind his 13-year-old son and actor-wife Priyanka Sarkar. Co-actor Diganta Bagchi said Banerjee went into the water alone after the shoot and got entangled underwater. Crew members pulled him out and rushed him to Digha hospital, where he was declared brought dead.