Leading Bollywood actors attacked or threatened

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LAHORE: Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, who suffered severe spinal injuries after being stabbed by an unidentified assailant on Thursday morning, is not the first Indian film personality to be physically assaulted, threatening to kill. Faced with or confused by it. In violent conflict, research shows.

Before Saif, an unknown person had sent a threatening message to actor Shah Rukh Khan, demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh in 2024.

Actor Salman Khan has also received death threats over the years.

In 2024, two motorcycle-borne men opened fire outside his residence in Mumbai. The shooters were allegedly hired by the gang of the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi.

Later, Anmul Bishnoi, brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, claimed responsibility for the attack in a Facebook post.

According to India Today, in November 2024, Salman Khan received a fresh threat from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, asking the actor to either visit a temple or apologize for allegedly killing a blackbuck. And pay 50 million rupees. The threatening message said that if Salman failed to fulfill the conditions, he would face a fate ‘worse than Baba Siddique’, who was shot dead on October 12, 2024.

Salman also received a similar death threat last October 30 from an unknown person, who extorted Rs 20 million from him.

In 2005, actor Aamir Khan received a threatening letter from an anonymous person.

“India Today” said, “According to reports, Aamir Khan received a few death threats. He therefore bought a new bomb/bulletproof car worth Rs 10 crore – a Mercedes-Benz S600. He Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has become the third person to own a bulletproof car after industrialist Mukesh Ambani.

In June 2024, actress, Raveena Tandon faced a violent mob when her car hit three pedestrians in Mumbai.

The Indian Express reported, “In a video that has gone viral, the actress can be seen arguing with a crowd of people near her residence in Bandra. According to the police, Raveena’s car is now on the premises of her residence.” Just after entering, a crowd gathered outside, demanding the driver to come out and talk to them about the claim that the car had hit a woman.

Actor Dilip Kumar was a victim of an unfortunate acid attack in 1955.

According to the May 1955 issue of the leading Indian film magazine Filmfare, a Delhi youth, Yasin Chandiwala, tried to mutilate Dileep with acid.

Dileep was quoted as saying, “I received a letter written in a delirious manner by this person. He was really a guy who was going to throw acid on me and was giving reasons why he wanted to do it. The reasons were all so contradictory that I believe the boy is unbalanced. One of the reasons was that I, who was a Muslim, had adopted the name of Hindu and developed relations with non-Muslims. The other was that I was playing fast and loose with Muslim women and she objected to that. Yet, another thing was that he was desperate, his parents were in Pakistan and he was stuck here, and that he wanted to get my attention so that I could do something to ease his plight.

Indian journalist, Purush Gupta once wrote, “In the 1960s, Dilip Kumar (née Yusuf Khan) was accused of being a Pakistani spy. Many claimed that he was involved in gathering secret information from India. It was claimed that he often came to Pakistan for one reason or another. Apparently, when the Indo-Pak war was in full swing, there was news that espionage equipment was found in the house of an important person And this person is many “Actually the Calcutta police raided his house and checked it,” he added. Then in 1998, Dilip Kumar went to Pakistan to receive the honour, along with Sunil Dutt who was born in undivided India. Later, during the Kargil War, there were widespread demands for Dilip Kumar to return the honor given to him by Pakistan, but he refused to do so.

In 2021, Shiv Sena verbally attacked Dilip Kumar for supporting Deepa Mehta’s film ‘Fire’.

In 1971, renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah was assaulted in a restaurant by an old acquaintance. However, the quick reaction of co-star Om Puri saved his life.

In 2015, Naseeruddin was trolled on Twitter after comments he made praising a book written by former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri. He said that he was targeted for being a Muslim.