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)

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¡ª Gems of Bollywood Fan (@FilmyKhichdii) February 1, 2023

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

Sanjay Dutt- this call was made from Taj Hotel, Nashik- perhaps & Mumbai Police intercepted it. It was during the release of Mission Kashmir and some disputes over the distribution rights of the movie.

¡ª s.m (@samikm_2003) February 1, 2023

So that call was about a live supari being given by Baba, reference to Bhai as in Dawooood, Preity Zinta getting a collect call from some underworld pretending to be Shakeel, and her working with Shaks. Bollywood nicely explained!

¡ª Midnight Luna (@MiddniteLuna) February 1, 2023

FYI,
Chotta(not Chhota) Shakeela was the producer of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, and he casted Lallu, Preety etc in the movie.
Movie flopped very badly. ?

And this call happened around that time period.

¡ª Takla Katappa (@taklakatappa) February 1, 2023

Yup. Zinta even testified in court about this. That was hella brave but also because apparently Bhai log ladies log ko approach nako karte

¡ª Midnight Luna (@MiddniteLuna) February 1, 2023

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¨CMustan, the release date of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed by several months.

Khalnayak is intoxicated ?. Charsi

¡ª ???? ???? (@sanjay4kulkarni) February 1, 2023

sanjay dutt had complained to chhota shakeel abt govinda....n they talked like childhood buddies...its disgusting tht MLAs r protecting him

¡ª Back & Bones (@ouchh_potato) March 28, 2013

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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