A celebrity shootout in Mumbai has sent shockwaves through the financial capital and has spread fear in the Hindi film industry. This wasn’t the first shootout in the city this year. And now, the industry is scared of the dark shadows of the past, when the underworld called the shots in Bollywood. And just like the past, this time too, the masterminds seem to be operating from foreign shores. But was Tiger Shroff the real target? Is this shootout related to incidents like the firing outside actor Salman Khan’s residence, the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique, the shooting outside filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s residence and the reported threats to actors Ranveer Singh and Aamir Khan?
In this week’s Pulse Maharashtra with Vinaya Deshpande, we take you through what we know so far and what the unanswered questions are. And how this attack leads to an old fear in the heart of an industry which is one of India’s greatest soft powers in the world – Bollywood.
