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In the city of Nagpur, India, Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. Bhagat felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry one night in June 1999. MYSTERY OF A PREGNANT MAN
An ambulance rushed the 36 year-old farmer to the hospital. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate and remove the source of the bulge in his belly. The surgeon Dr. Ajay Mehta said that usually he can spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But Dr. Ajay encountered something he had never encountered while operating on Bhagat.
As he cut deeper into Bhagat, gallons of fluid spilled out� and then something extraordinary happened. "To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside his belly!" he said. "It was a bit shocking for me." Dr. Ajay just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside. First, one limb came out then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair.
Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long. At first glance, it may look like Bhagat gave "birth." Actually, Dr. Ajay removed the mutated body of his Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach.
Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions known as fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that involves a fetus getting trapped inside of its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cord-like structure that leeches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
According to Dr. Ajay, there are less than 90 cases total recorded in medical literature. Fetus in fetu happens very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The dominant fetus grows, while the fetus that would have been its twin lives on throughout the pregnancy, feeding off its host twin like a kind of parasite.
Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta. However, sometimes, as in Bhagat's case, the host twin survives and is delivered. What makes his case so unusual is that no one suspected Bhagat had a twin inside him for 36 years.
Bhagat said he was very much relieved after his operation. He was not interested in knowing what Dr. Ajay did to him or seeing what he had removed from his abdomen. "He didn't want to see it because it was looking very ghastly" Dr. Ajay said. Today, Bhagat is in good health and can lead a normal life.

(Reuters) - A Bengali film-maker inspired by the December protests over the gang r**e of a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist in New Delhi is hoping his new film would help change people's mindset.

"What I want to say through my film is that anti-r**e laws or street protests alone cannot stop a social menace," said Milan Bhowmik.

"It is also about the conscience of people which needs to be changed," he told Reuters in an interview.

Five men and a teenager were put on trial for the December 16 assault in which the student was gang-r**ed and severely beaten in a moving bus before she and a male friend were thrown out. The woman died of internal injuries in a Singapore hospital two weeks later.

Mainstream Indian media did not identify the victim; referring to her only as "Nirbhaya", a Hindi word meaning "fearless". Thousands of people held protest rallies for days, condemning the police for not preventing such crimes and demanding the death penalty for the assailants.

Bhowmik's film, titled "Nirbhoya" in Bengali, is based on media reports of the incident and his meeting with the victim's family, although the film would have fictional characters in West Bengal.

"The trigger for me definitely was the Delhi gang r**e and the huge protest that rocked the nation," the director told Reuters during a break from filming at a resort on the outskirts of Kolkata. "But the protests also provoked me to think if such an agitation alone can stop the crime."

"But the big question is whether after the protests, r**es have come down in India," he said. "No, and perhaps here is where we have to address the problem for a real solution beyond laws and legalese."

Bhowmik said the film would have shots of the bus cruising through the streets of New Delhi and passing through several police checkpoints.

The alleged ringleader in the r**e case was found dead in his prison cell at Tihar jail earlier this month but there are no plans to feature Ram Singh's apparent su***de in the film.

While the film-maker is little known outside West Bengal, the cast of "Nirbhoya" includes Soumitra Chatterjee, winner of the 2008 national award for best actor.

Bhowmik said filming for "Nirbhoya" is scheduled to finish by April and it would open in cinemas within a couple of months.

"I think my film tries to offer an answer to every question that is raised about r**es," he said.

(Writing by Tony Tharakan)

shahrukh,sohail nd kapil.....

hindi version of wrong turn......