Dawood Ibrahim’s gangsters asked Naseeruddin Shah to return fee of my film, claims Lilliput: ‘I was in wrong company’ | Bollywood News
The Hindi film industry was undergoing a troublesome phase in the 1980s and 1990s when several investigations and police officials reported that the underworld gangsters, most notably Dawood Ibrahim and many of his colleagues of their notorious D-Company, started investing their black money in the movies. In this era, a lot of film stars, producers, directors, composers, singers would get extortion calls from gangsters in Dubai, with threats to their life as some were even shot in broad daylight. In this phase, the gangsters of D-Company contacted Naseeruddin Shah and asked for their money back as the actor had received payment for a film that was apparently funded by them. In a new conversation shared on Subhojit Ghosh’s YouTube channel, actor-writer Lilliput shared that it was his film that led to this chaos. Lilliput shared that he first met Naseeruddin Shah back in the 1980s during a play. Describing him as a “soft-hearted man” who is a “complete human being”, Lilliput shared that Naseeruddin, along with Mithun Chakraborty, often encouraged him to work for those …
