‘I don’t want to die here’: Vikram Bhatt opens up about health scare in Udaipur Central Jail | Bollywood News
3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Apr 14, 2026 09:31 PM IST Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and his wife Shwetambari Bhatt were arrested by the Rajasthan Police in Mumbai on December 7, 2025 in connection with a Rs 30 crore fraud case. The couple was granted bail in February this year. Now, in his latest social media post, Vikram opened up about his time in Udaipur Central Jail and how his health deteriorated “in the biting cold of January.” In the long note posted on his Instagram handle, the filmmaker shared that three weeks into his incarceration, he woke up one night in Barrack No. 10 with “severe fever and uncontrollable shivering.” Despite wrapping himself in four blankets, he was shivering. The other inmates even helped him with more blankets. He then had a paracetamol, but the fever didn’t subside. Vikram continued, “The next morning I went to the prison hospital. They had no thermometer. They checked my oxygen and said I was fine. I told them they must be joking. I suffer from axial spondylarthritis, an autoimmune …
