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Sanjay Shah, 55, CEO of suburban Chicago tech firm Vistex, died in a shocking fall in front of hundreds of attendees during the company’s 25th anniversary celebration Thursday at a movie studio stage in India. A video of the bizarre accident shows Shah and Raju Datla, the company’s president, being lowered in a faux hot air balloon spewing decorative sparks when a cable holding the basket gave way and the two men plunged about 20 feet to the stage below. Shah died from his injuries while Datla remains in critical condition, according to multiple Indian news sources. A Vistex spokesperson did n…