By New York Post (World News) | Created at 2026-10-19 14:25:31 | Updated at 2026-10-19 22:12:29
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Shocking video shows hired gunmen repeatedly shooting at a Bollywood actor-turned-soccer player — who remarkably walked away relatively unscathed.
Tiger Shroff was waving at fans as he was being driven out of a Mumbai soccer stadium on Sunday when the motorcycle-riding gunmen suddenly pounced and opened fire into his BMW — after allegedly being paid just $525 to kill him, NDTV reported.
Miraculously, they missed the musclebound actor-turned-athlete, who suffered only minor injuries to his arm and shoulder caused by gunpowder and flying glass.
His driver and an unidentified rickshaw driver were injured in the shooting, police said, without revealing the extent of their injuries.
The shooters fled and ditched their motorbike near a train station – but cops arrested three men, ages 17, 18 and 22, in Kota on a train bound for Delhi. They were planning to flee to Nepal, authorities said.
Cops are probing whether it was an attempted hit on Shroff, a voice actor in the Hindi version of “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” ordered by an organized crime gang, the Lawrence Bishnoi group.
The trio were allegedly paid 50,000 rupees — just $525 — to carry out the hit on Shroff, the son of Hindi actor Jackie Shroff and former Miss Young India 1980 winner Ayesha Shroff.
Notorious gangster Bishnoi, 33, is holed up in a high-security Gujarat prison, but the group, which has been declared a terrorist entity in Canada, has previously been accused of targeting other A-listers, including Bollywood star Salman Khan’s home in 2024.
The group was also linked to the October 2024 assassination of Indian politician Baba Siddique, who was shot near his car as he was leaving his son’s Mumbai home. He died in the hospital.
Authorities have declared war on gang crime – with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde warning, “These attempts to intimidate people will not be tolerated, and we will put an end to this hooliganism.”
“We will respond to them in the language they understand,” Shinde told the Hindu.
“Whichever gang might be responsible for it, we will not leave them.”
Shroff is best known for starring in the Bollywood movies “Heropanti” and “Baaghi” but he has been on the roster of fourth-tier Indian soccer club Mumbay FC since 2024.
