Overview
- On Saturday Rakhi Sawant visited the area near the Kaaba in Mecca to pray and to distribute Janamaz, or prayer mats, saying explicit prayers for people and animals affected by floods in Nepal.
- Video posted on Instagram and picked up by news outlets shows a large group of pilgrims surging toward her as she handed out mats and appearing visibly overwhelmed.
- In the footage people are seen pulling at her hijab and later following her toward a nearby shop where others grabbed remaining mats, with no widely reported official statements or confirmed injuries.
- Rakhi can be heard chanting "Allah Hu Akbar" in the clips while trying to manage the distribution, and the episode has been framed in coverage as both an act of charity and a public-safety incident.
- The incident underscores how handouts in crowded pilgrimage areas can trigger dangerous surges and will likely prompt attention to crowd management at dense sites; Rakhi is also scheduled to appear as a panellist on India’s Got Latent Season 2.