Actor Gurfateh Pirzada says Diwali firecrackers burnt his Mumbai balcony

Diwali is meant to be about lights and sweets. For actor Gurfateh Pirzada, it ended with a burnt balcony and a damaged room.

The Lust Stories 3 actor shared the news on Instagram Stories, along with pictures of the damage.

What happened?

Gurfateh says firecrackers started a fire at his home in Mumbai on Diwali. According to him, the blaze burnt down his entire balcony and damaged almost his entire room.

He posted photos of the aftermath and tagged the Mumbai Police and the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai's city civic body). His caption was blunt: "The sheer stupidity of the masses is astounding... crackers burnt my entire balcony and almost my entire room. The entire city is burning and is a gas chamber."

Why is everyone talking about it?

His post landed just as Mumbai woke up to heavy post-Diwali smog. Overnight, air quality dipped sharply, with the AQI (Air Quality Index) crossing 400 at several spots. Navy Nagar recorded 497.

There were also multiple fires in the city during the festival. Mumbai has now banned rockets and aerial firecrackers until November 25.

Who is Gurfateh Pirzada?

He began acting in 2018 with Friends in Law, then appeared in the Netflix thriller Guilty (2020) and Hum Bhi Akele Tum Bhi Akele (2021). He became more widely known through the Netflix series Class (2023) and also appeared in Call Me Bae (2024) on Amazon Prime Video.

This year he played freedom fighter Bagha Jatin in Nikkhil Advani's series The Revolutionaries, which premiered on Prime Video on September 11. He is the brother of actor Mehreen Pirzada, known for Telugu and Tamil films.