A lot of teenagers have played with fire at one point or another. Mohammed Jalaluddin, a 19-year-old male from Hyderabad, was no exception. On Monday, Jalaluddin was preparing a submission video for the prominent TV series India’s Got Talent, when the performance went totally wrong. He caught on fire and eventually succumbed to his injuries. Here’s what we know.  

Mohammed Jalaluddin was practicing fire stunts in front of some of his friends on Monday. This included reportedly pouring kerosene into his mouth and then breathing out fire, as well as a secondary stunt that involved a t-shirt. It was while he was filming this t-shirt stunt that he caught on fire. He was unable to remove the piece of clothing that was on fire. He suffered third degree burns over 60% of his body, according to The Times of India.  

His friends were on hand during the filming, as Mohammed Jalaluddin was attempting to get the best shots of his stunt work so he could send them in to India’s Got Talent, a popular show based on NBC’s America’s Got Talent which has spawned other iterations in numerous countries around the globe (including Britain’s Got Talent and Das Supertalent. The Wrap reports that although Jalaluddin’s friends were on hand when he was burning, he told authorities they had done nothing wrong before he died on Monday. He had attempted the fire stunts in the hopes that he would be called up by the popular reality competition series and said the filming was his own idea.   Read more…

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