Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff survives shooting in Mumbai

Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff survived a shooting in Mumbai on Sunday evening and was not hurt, according to Indian police who are investigating, the BBC and Dawn reported.

The 36-year-old was in a car leaving a football club in the suburb of Juhu at around 7pm when it was shot at. Several news outlets published a video showing at least two gunmen firing multiple shots at close range at the front passenger seat of the slowly moving car as it passed a crowd, the BBC reported.

Who was hurt

Mumbai Zone-II Deputy Commissioner of Police Mohit Garg said Shroff’s driver, Firdaus, was injured in the left hand, and a bystander identified as Chauhan was also wounded and taken to hospital, according to The Hindu as cited by Dawn. Shroff himself did not sustain any gunshot wounds, police said.

Official reaction

Maharashtra Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed Mumbai Police Commissioner Deven Bharti to investigate and act against those responsible, The Hindu reported. Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde visited Shroff after the attack and said the actor and his mother had been left “shaken”. “These attempts to intimidate people will not be tolerated, and we will put an end to this hooliganism,” he said. He told The Hindu that “our priority is to keep Mumbai’s citizens safe. We will not spare anyone trying to threaten our film industry”, and added: “It is time we respond to them in their own language.”

Film industry demands protection

The All Indian Cine Workers Association said it was “shocked and deeply anguished” by the firing. “This is not an isolated incident,” it said, pointing to earlier attacks:

• shots fired outside actor Salman Khan’s residence in Bandra;
• actor Saif Ali Khan stabbed at his Bandra home;
• shots fired outside the Juhu home of filmmaker Rohit Shetty; and
• repeated attacks on comedian Kapil Sharma’s cafe.

“One after another, people from the film industry are being targeted, and a deliberate atmosphere of fear is being created,” the association said. It alleged that gangsters want to terrorise Bollywood figures and extort money, and that police and government had failed to stop the attacks. It asked Fadnavis to arrest the shooters and those who ordered the firing, break the “extortion network” and give film personalities and their families proper protection.

Local media reported that responsibility was claimed in an unverified social media post, which warned that anyone in the Mumbai industry who works with Salman Khan and “doesn’t listen to us” would meet the same fate. The authorities have not responded to the post, Dawn reported.

A pattern of attacks

The BBC noted the incident has heightened concern about the safety of public figures in India, some of whom have been killed or injured in targeted attacks in recent years. In 2024, police arrested two members of a criminal gang for a gun attack on Salman Khan’s home, and the same year politician Baba Siddique was shot dead in Mumbai.

Shroff is the son of two actors. He made his acting debut in 2014 with the romance film Heropanti and went on to star in several films. He is also a football enthusiast who plays for the professional club Mumbay FC.

Why it matters

A shooting at a car carrying one of India’s best-known film stars, in a busy Mumbai suburb and in front of a crowd, adds to the film industry’s demand for real protection and increases pressure on Maharashtra’s authorities to show results. The investigation will show who fired the shots and whether the social media claim of responsibility is genuine.

This article draws on reporting by the BBC and Dawn.