Twitter User Shares Bollywood Star's Conversation With Underworld Gangster Chhota Shakeel

It is no secret that the glamorous world of Bollywood has often crossed paths with the underworld. The industry that makes a huge sum of money is bound to get calls from the underworld. What started with Haftas turned into brutal attacks, especially during the 90s. T-Series owner Gulshan Kumar was one of the victims of the same who was shot to death in the broad daylight. Hrithik Roshan's father Rakesh Roshan was attacked too.?

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Twitter User Shares Bollywood Star's Conversation With Underworld Gangster Chhota Shakeel

In the leaked tape, the Bollywood star can be heard talking to Chhota Shakeel about:

- Chikna (reportedly Abu Salem) who called up Karisma Kapoor and threatened her

- he also mentions Preity Zinta and Sanjay Leela Bhansali?

- He also asks for a chip (SIM) from Dubai

- Complaints about another actor (reportedly Govinda)

Many people pointed out that the Bollywood star is Sanjay Dutt, whose phone was reportedly tapped by Mumbai Police in Nov 2000.

For the unversed, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was produced by Nazim Rizv who was arrested days before the release of the movie. He was reportedly funded by D-Company operative Chhota Shakeel and had pressurized Salman Khan to sign the movie.?

At that time, Preity Zinta had testified against the mafia don. She admitted having received an extortion threat from Chhota Shakeel. She said that she dismissed it as a prank call. In 2018, the actress told India Today, "For the record, if I knew that everyone was going to back out, I also would have. It was a scary time in my life. I should have been protected. Whatever I said in court was on TV ten minutes later."

Directed by Abbas–Mustan, the release date of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed by several months.

The tiff between Govinda and Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Dutt and Govinda, the duo who gave multiple hits together including Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, Jodi No 1 and Hassena Maan Jayegi among others. Their?camaraderie on-camera and off-camera was pretty well. However, when this conversation tapes were revealed in media, Govinda wasn't happy about Sanjay talking so low of him.?

At that time, Govinda was quoted as saying, "What can you expect from someone who doesn’t even respect his own father? Sunisaab is a ‘sant’, whilst Sanjay".

If the grapevine is to be believed, the tiff began due to creative differences between the two on the sets of a David Dhawan movie.

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