Manav Kaul says he was detained in Gulshan Kumar’s murder case: ‘Aise swagat kiya Mumbai ne’

The Tumhari Sulu actor revealed what led to the confusion. “The entire day we would walk around studios and Film City and meet people and then come back at night. So someone who lived in our society found it suspicious that these five men come back late at night, gamble and then next day will get ready and leave. So they complained,” recalled Manav.

Gulshan Kumar died on August 12, 1997 when he was shot several times outside Jiteshwar Mahadev Mandir in Mumbai. The late T-Series founder was a regular visitor of the temple.

The actor clearly remembers the night when the police surrounded their room as he said, “So one night we were playing cards and suddenly the police surrounded our house and they entered and directly asked, “Gulshan Kumar ko kisne maara (Who killed Gulshan Kumar)?” I found it a bit funny but 2-3 other people got scared and they took us to Dahisar police station.”

When asked if this scared him, Manav said, “I was very young back then… to uss samay mein lag raha ki ‘aisa swagat kiya Mumbai ne’ (At that time, I felt this is how Mumbai welcomed me).”

He added, “Later when I was working with T-Series and doing Tumhari Sulu; I went to the office and saw Gulshan Kumar’s picture at the entry and thought to myself ‘hmmm…kaha se shuruaat hui thi, aur kaha hai hum.'”