Mumbai: In a real-life shoot-out, a Bollywood security contractor was shot and critically injured inside Film City in Goregaon East in Mumbai on Friday, barely a few metres away from a set where 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.
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 shoot-out at 2pm, near gate number two of Film City, which is situated inside the Aarey Milk Colony, police erected road blocks all the way up to the Western Express Highway and at all the exit points from Mumbai.
Shinde also runs a cable television network, construction office, and supplies timber to film sets.
However, the motive behind the attack and its perpetrators are still not clear and being investigated, Patil added.
Bachchan, 72, tweeted: “Okay!! Shooting at Film City ... and a gang war shoot-out 20 feet from where we are ... !! 1 dead ... cops all over.”
The Film City is an integrated film studio complex with multiple locations that serve as the venue of many Bollywood film and TV show shootings.
