Govinda recalls pointing gun at mob that surrounded his house, claims Mumbai Police didn’t help: ‘I called police of another country’

It’s when one of those climbed onto the terrace that Govinda thought the situation was not normal. “They’d started surrounding me. In the meantime, I called up and informed everybody. I have a licensed gun, so I took it out,” said the actor to ANI. He then confronted them and asked, “Who are you?”

Nobody said anything for a while till one of them signalled. “We’re here to fix the power system.” But when Govinda asked them that it’s been a while, so why they’re not leaving, all of them stayed mum. “So I pointed the gun and asked them to leave. They were not expecting that,” he recalled. However, the actor added that he didn’t even try to find out who those people were.

“That’s a waste of time. People divert your energy into thinking about all that,” argued Govinda, adding, “A good actor can’t work like that. They can either act or react. An actor’s job is to act. If an actor starts reacting to everything anyone and everyone in society is saying, that doesn’t feel nice. Yes, if you stay silent for too long, that silence can be misconstrued with suspicion. Even that’s not good.”

Last week, Govinda’s manager Shashi Sinha revealed the actor keeps getting death threats. “Thank god he had a gun with him the day he got attacked. He chased everyone away. Otherwise god knows what would’ve happened to him. I rushed to him at 4 am. We also filed an FIR. We also have a video of what happened that night,” he recalled.

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Back in October 2024, Govinda was hospitalised after he allegedly shot himself in the foot while cleaning his gun. He sustained leg injuries after his weapon accidentally went off at his Mumbai residence, while he was about to leave for the airport, the police had said. The actor and his manager have not clarified if it is the same incident.