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Shoot-out in Mumbai Film City rattles Bollywood
Mumbai, May 22
In a real life shoot-out, a
Bollywood security contractor was shot and critically injured inside the
Film City in Goregaon East here on Friday, barely a few metres away
from a set where megastar Amitabh Bachchan was shooting.
Additional
Police Commissioner Fatehsinh Patil told reporters that two people
arrived on a motorbike and fired at least three shots at Shrikant alias
Raju Shinde from close quarters, stunning the people around.
A seriously injured Shinde, 45, was rushed to the Nanavati Hospital in Vile Parle where he is undergoing treatment.
"There
may be a possibility of personal rivalry as he was shot from a close
range... We are investigating from all angles and shall probe if he had
got any threats in the past," Patil said.
Shortly after the
shootout at 2 p.m., near the Gate No 2 of Film City which is situated
inside the Aarey Milk Colony, police erected road blocks all the way
upto the Western Express Highway and at all the exit points from Mumbai.
Among
other things, Shinde also served as a security contractor, runs a cable
television network, construction, supplying timber to film sets and
into assorted social activities.
However, the motive behind the attack or its perpetrators are still not clear and being investigated, Patil added.
Bachchan,
72, tweeted: "Okay!! Shooting at Film City...and a gang war shootout 20
feet from where we are... !! 1 dead... cops all over."
The
Filmcity is an integrated film studio complex with multiple locations
that serve as the venue of many Bollywood film and TV show shootings.