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Asif Ali played the role of a Nipah-hit patient in last year's Virus. When asked if he faced an ordeal as a patient in real life, the actor had a story to tell. "I studied in a boarding school. A month before my Class 10 board exam, the school authorities called home and told my parents I was unwell. My father picked me up and I was lying on the backseat of the car, terribly fatigued. He felt sad seeing me like that and so stopped at my favourite hotel located between Kolenchery and Thodupuzha to buy me a ‘kalakkan’ chicken biriyani. I actually had jaundice and I was not supposed to have chicken or egg. So, all I remember was having the biriyani and then passing out. My bilirubin count shot up, all my nails turned yellow and the jaundice was severe. I was bedridden for about two weeks and I sort of went to the edge and came back," he said.