Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s car was on Sunday stoned by some miscreants while he was shooting for his forthcoming film Raees in Ahmedabad. He was not in the car and was not hurt.
According to police, a small crowd shouting “Jai Shri Ram” (Hindu religious slogan) and “Shah Rukh, Hai Hai” (Down with Shah Rukh) stoned the car parked some distance from the location where the shooting was taking place.
Raees is based on the life of an underworld don of the 1980s, Abdul Lateef Shaikh, who was killed in a shootout with police.
The film is being directed by Rahul Dholakia, who had earlier made controversial film Parzania based on the 2002 Gujarat riots. Raees also stars Pakistani heroine Mahira Khan.
Shah Rukh Khan shot a couple of scenes at the historic Sarkhej Roza mosque and dargah campus during the day. Over 200 policemen guarded the Roza campus.
Meanwhile, over a dozen activists of the right-wing political party Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) were detained by police as they burnt an effigy of the actor on Ashram Road.
Last week, a group of demonstrators staged a protest near the Kutch district collector’s office in Bhuj demanding a ban on Shah Rukh Khan’s entry into the Rann of Kutch.
The VHP has called for a boycott of Shah Rukh Khan to protest his reported statement that India was intolerant.
