A parcel for Rajkumar Hirani

It was a sentimental plea posted with a prayer from halfway across the world, but it miraculously landed up at Rajkumar Hirani’s home in Mumbai. Kanti Hirani, a resident of New South Wales, Australia, had a strong hunch that Rajkumar Hirani was connected in some way to his family.
So he decided to post pictures and a CD containing images of his extended family in the hope that he would recognise some of them.Unfortunately, Kanti didn’t have Rajkumar’s address.
So when the parcel (see below) addressed to ‘Rajkumar Hirani, director of 3 Idiots and Munnabhai, Santa Cruz’ was actually delivered to his residence in Bandra East, Hirani was as astonished as he was pleasantly surprised.
Our source said, “Raju kept wondering just how much effort the postal department must have taken to make sure he got the parcel, considering that there was no address and he lived in Bandra East and not Santa Cruz. They could have easily returned it to the sender.
Although the gentleman in question thought that Rajkumar was distantly related to him, that was not the case, and he has been informed accordingly.
While Hirani’s films have generated a big fan following for him and he receives hundreds of letters from all over the world, this letter takes the cake.”
Inquiries revealed that when the letter reached the GPO, it became a topic of discussion in their monthly meeting. So they first scouted around in Santa Cruz and were finally able to locate his actual residence in Bandra East, where the parcel was delivered. It took the parcel about two weeks to reach Rajkumar since the day Kanti Hirani had posted it.”
Raju Hirani said, “I am stunned by this whole episode. I can understand a parcel being delivered without an address to someone like Amitabh Bachchan or Aamir Khan, but how did this happen to me? I’m very grateful to the postal department for going out of their way to deliver this parcel to me.”
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