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Actor Mahesh Thakur has opened up about the discomforting time when five cast members of Hum Saath-Saath Hain — Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Neelam Kothari, Tabu, and Sonali Bendre — were taken into police custody for their alleged involvement in the controversial black buck case in the late 1990s. The police came to the film’s set in Rajasthan, and took the five actors with them, he said.
He continued, “Because it was so ambiguous, news waalo ne kaafi uchchale hai, kuch nikala toh nahi tha (The media blew it up). People were hyping it because Salman and Saif’s names were associated, so the media enjoyed it. But the fact is nothing came out at the end of it, but the media fed a lot of negativity.” The actor said that when the incident happened, the Jodhpur schedule got cancelled and the entire cast was sent back. When they re-grouped shortly afterwards, the atmosphere hadn’t really changed much, Mahesh said. “It was normal. Everyone knew everyone, it wasn’t that aapne kiya hai questioning. The professionalism was displayed easily.”
Mahesh recalled that the eight days of buffer that Sooraj Barjatya had pre-scheduled worked in the film’s favour. “Sooraj ji had taken eight extra days from us, apart from the 99 days of shoot. He said he would finish our shoot in 99 days. When the case happened, the eight extra days worked in the favour of the film because they were all combination dates. So we used those buffer eight days to shoot, otherwise getting dates from everyone and shooting it would have been very difficult,” he said.
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