Bollywood Stars Including Aamir Khan & Amitabh Bachchan Protested Against Drugs In The 90s

On Oct 7, 2021

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Subhash Ghai has been a prominent filmmaker in the Hindi film industry.

Although he doesn’t direct now, he has given some of the mega-hits of Bollywood in the 80s and 90s including Karz, Pardes, Khal Nayak and Taal.

He has worked with some of the biggest stars of that era like Shah Rukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai.

Seeing Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan being arrested in the drug case recently, he recalled the time when Bollywood actors vowed against drug abuse.

He shared a throwback picture of the anti-drug drive held by the biggest actors of the 80s and 90s on a social media app called Koo.

It was in the 90s and actors including Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Dimple Kapadia, Padmini Kolhapure, Jackie Shroff can be seen in the picture.

Shah Rukh Khan isn’t there in the picture, though. Neither is Sanjay Dutt, who has confessed to having struggled with drug addiction in the 80s.

Ghai wrote, “In 1990, our media witnessed several film stars protesting against drugs in one voice with Gulshan Jitender, Vinod Khanna, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Da Jackie Dimple Shabana Tina Khanna Padmini Kolhapuri n VIPs, at an event organised by Subhash Ghai- highly appreciated. We all still protest against ’Drugs -the Evil.”

Bollywood is notorious for being involved with drugs and many stars, including Kangana Ranaut, Ranbir Kapoor and Prateik Babbar, have admitted to either being addicted to drugs or having a run-in with substance abuse.

A lot of star kids of Bollywood have fallen in this pit even before they set a foot in the film industry and Fardeen Khan, Ranbir Kapoor and Prateik Babbar are just some of them.

The latest one to add to this list was Aryan Khan, son of the superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

Aryan Khan is still in custody which will end today. He will be seeking bail in the drug case, according to the reports.