4 min readNew DelhiMar 14, 2026 06:33 PM IST The Hindi film industry’s relationship with the Mumbai underworld in the 1990s has long been known. During that decade, several filmmakers and actors received extortion calls, gangsters allegedly financed films, producers Gulshan Kumar and Mukesh Duggal were shot dead by underworld gangsters. Now filmmaker and choreographer Farah Khan has opened up about that period on a podcast with Ranveer Allahbadia, Farah recalled how the underworld’s presence in Bollywood became increasingly visible during the 1990s. ‘I had just started my career when Mukesh Duggal was shot’ Farah said she remembers the moment when producer Mukesh Duggal was killed. “I remember I was on a film set. I had just started my career when Mukesh Duggal was shot,” she said. Duggal, who produced films such as Fateh, Saathi, Dil Ka Kya Kasoor and Khilona, was shot dead in 1997 at his office in Seven Bungalows in Andheri. ‘The three Khans were under pressure’ During the conversation, Ranveer Allahbadia asked Farah whether Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir …