Mumbai, April 15: World Cup celebrations ended up as a serious security threat for Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. A rowdy mob outside Ritesh Sidhwani apartment near Palli Hill Road happened to manhandle SRK when the Police security personnel's present with the actor had to pull out their licensed revolver to disperse them.
The incident occurred on the midnight of April 3, couple of hours after Team India put their hands on the World Cup trophy, King Khan was in celebration mode and was mobbed outside the crowed road towards Palli Hill. As per an eyewitness, the actor was cordial with the crowd but as he walked a head a bunch of locals who were under influence of alcohol surrounded SRK and started abusing him. “Kyon be Saale star banta hai kya tu, tere b***p ka road hai kya... chal ch**#**e jo ukhadna hai ukhad le".
King Khan was polite and persistently asked them to excuse him, but things aggravated. SRK lost his cool after one of the rowdy guys manhandled him and Khan also pushed the guy away and walked inside Ritesh's building.
Anticipating that the issue was over, SRK later learnt that the mob had started gathering outside the building manhandling his guards. To make peace the actor walked down the apartment to find the mob of 20 odd barging in to attack him.
Within no time the furious mob had surrounded the actor inside the building premises. "It was then SRK who requested couple of media persons to give him a security cover since he had only two personal police guards along his side," added the eyewitness.
Things were out of control, when one of the guards of SRK had to forcibly pull out his licensed revolver to scare the mob away. "It was alarming as SRK would have been severely injured if the guard would have not promptly taken out the weapon to scare the mob away”, elaborated the eyewitness.
When contacted, the official from the Khar Police station said that no such incident was bought to their notice.
"Since the actor is renowned personality and has threats too, he has been given Police security with licensed revolver, the official may have found the situation to be critical and perhaps taken a drastic step to pull out the licensed revolver to shun the uncontrollable mob away," adds a police officer on the basis on anonymity.
Within no time the mob had dispersed but SRK was quick enough to call peace in front of the shutterbugs , claiming them to be just enthusiastic cricket fans.
-Agencies