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India’s most celebrated leading lady walked into a luxury hotel suite to discuss a film shoot—only to be brutally beaten by an actor-director and his wife in front of high-society guests, leaving her with permanent physical scars.
The reason might surprise you.
By 1979, Zeenat Aman had redefined modern Indian cinema. With landmark hits like Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Yaadon Ki Baaraat, and Don, she was an unstoppable cinematic icon and trendsetter.
Behind the flashbulbs, she entered into a fiercely guarded, tumultuous relationship with actor-filmmaker Sanjay Khan during the making of his ambitious period drama, Abdullah.
Khan was already married to interior designer Zarine Katrak, with four children. Despite the complicated setup, the two grew deeply involved, with reports of a secret nikah ceremony in Jaisalmer in 1978.
Then came November 1979.
While shooting in Lonavala for another film, Zeenat received word that Sanjay Khan was furious with her over shooting dates and schedule clashes for Abdullah.
Wanting to clear the air, settle the production dates, and mend the relationship, Zeenat drove straight back to Mumbai to meet him.
She arrived at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Colaba, where Sanjay and Zarine Khan were attending a private party in a suite:
The moment Zeenat entered the room, the confrontation turned violent.
Sanjay Khan reportedly dragged her into an adjoining room. In an uncontrollable fit of rage, he physically assaulted her, striking her repeatedly across the face and thrashing her against the floor.
Eyewitness accounts documented in film magazines like Stardust and verified by senior journalist Devyani Chaubal revealed that Zarine Khan joined in, cheering the assault as high-society party guests stood by in paralyzed silence.
Hotel staff eventually intervened, finding Zeenat battered, bleeding, and collapsed on the carpet before helping her to a car.
The assault caused catastrophic damage:
Zeenat suffered severe facial trauma, including a detached retina and fractured sinus bones.
Despite multiple reconstructive eye surgeries in the following months, the attack left her with permanent ptosis (a drooping right eyelid)—an injury she carried across the rest of her film career.
The aftermath reflected the grim gender politics of 1970s Bollywood:
Out of loyalty, fear of a prolonged scandal, and emotional shock, Zeenat did not file a formal police FIR against Sanjay Khan.
The film industry largely looked the other way, while tabloids sensationalized her trauma.
Sanjay Khan spent subsequent decades downplaying the brutality in his memoirs and public interviews, claiming her eye condition was a hereditary defect—a claim widely rejected by journalists, doctors, and eyewitnesses who were at the Taj that night.
Sandeep David S retweeted
A narrative is being set that it was because of protesters that shopkeepers are forced to shut their shops. But local journalists covering the protest say, Protestors, scores of them were buying stuff from local shops. It was the police that asked the shopkeepers to shut down their shops for “some time.” This was at Mandi House yesterday.
Sandeep David S retweeted
🚨 LOOK WHO WE SPOTTED ON THE STREETS OF DELHI! 🐕💀
Youth Congress workers expose BJP's lapdog, who is stealing elections at their command.
GUESS WHO? 👀
Sandeep David S retweeted
Crazy scenes in London right now:
Thousands of protesters chant "Chhappan inch ka chhota bandar" and one protester brought a chhota bandar with him.
Sandeep David S retweeted
Clearly all deletions were selected & controlled by the BJP through Gyanesh Kumar
The Election Commission Software Deleted 5.38 Lakh Bengal Voters With Auto-Generated Rejections Without Citing a Reason.
#Special @chhuti_is thewire.in/rights/the-eci-so…
Sandeep David S retweeted
This is a classic instance of governance by anarchy ! First commit illegality on a massive scale and then struggle to undo the illegality.
As the Election Commission launches a special drive in 20 states to bring back voters “left out” in the SIR, its officers are staring at a unique problem: persuading lakhs, possibly crores, of people to fill Form 6, the “Application Form for New Voters,” which asks them to declare they are applying “for the first time.”
Form 6 is the right route back, and officials say signing it invites no legal action. But people who’ve voted for decades balk at calling themselves new, and many believe the declaration is false.
Against that backdrop, Maharashtra’s CEO has proposed a fix: drop “New Voters” from the title, and let the deleted say they were enrolled before and cite their old EPIC number.
Break by @vallabhozarkarr
indianexpress.com/article/in… via @IndianExpress
Sandeep David S retweeted
He is guilty of not only vote chori , but also for funds chori from Government officials and public.
Imagine if Modi Shah & Gyanesh type had come to rule in india in 1947 . There would have been no govt schools , colleges , Universities, AIIMS , IITs . PSUs , No regular armies. Instead of Police Private rss goons would have been maintaining law & order.
People couldn't understand what was happening to them..then the fear of ED ,CBI and other government institutions has deterred the people further.. Kudos to Gen Z who could raise their voice and slowly everyone is coming out of that grip of fear..
Sandeep David S retweeted
How can @SauravDassss & @AshutoshRanka be lodged in Tihar high security cell on suicide watch for 5 days for going to Jantar Mantar to unfurl flag? And BJP goons who beat up kids get bail in hours. Amit Shah has gone mad with fear & insecurity.
Sandeep David S retweeted
See, books thrown onto roads, kicked as if football, vandalising bookstalls. This is Bengal Today. Tearing books apart is now part of Bengali Puja celebration.
Left ideological readings banned? Bhagat Singh was reading Lenin before his hanging. Not that Geeta or any Shastra. 🤌🏾
Sandeep David S retweeted
Absolute Filth from Indian Media 🤮
ABP News plastered Neha Singh Rathore’s face onto "hostel sex racket" story, despite having zero evidence.
The channel later did a fake a$s apology after Neha called Rajnish Ahuja.
@nehafolksinger don't let them off the hook that easily.
Sandeep David S retweeted
Happy Birthday Narendra Hirwani
The Best Bowling Figure on a Test Debut: 16 for 136 (8/61 & 8/75) in his debut test against West Indies at Chennai.
Hirwani played 17 tests and 18 ODIs for India and took 66 and 23 wickets respectively.
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There’s Tesla Roadster cool…
…and there’s
#CorsairCool😎
📹F111Driver
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Who is Vishnu Deo Sai? The BJP Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, who received free education at a Catholic missionary school without converting to Christianity.
The missionaries educated him without demanding conversion. Today, Christians and their schools face suspicion and accusations of conversion under his watch.
He benefited from their education. Where is his gratitude? Or does he remember the missionaries only when it suits his politics?
Btw, He did convert to become what he is today thanks to the missionaries.
#Missionaries #ConventSchools #Hypocrisy #conversion #Christians
The same crowd that shows up at convents to intimidate nuns, wave flags, and lecture them about "conversion" is the same crowd that would crawl over broken glass to get its child into a convent school.
Ask them one simple question: Did the nuns come to your home and force you to take admission?
No. They did not. There is no gun to your head. No lathi at your door. No coercion. You went to them. You filled the form. You stood in line at 5 a.m. You paid the fees. You told everyone your child studies in a "convent." And you were proud of it.
The school is "missionary" and "foreign" but it is the best school in town.
The nuns are "converting your kids" but your kid has been there eight years and you have not noticed a single conversion.
They should "go back" or "know their place" but you would cry if they actually shut the gates.
The truth is simple and uncomfortable. These institutions outperformed on education, discipline, honesty, and results for generations, while doing it quietly, cheaply, and without a political machine behind them. That is exactly why they are being targeted. Not because they failed. Because they succeeded and will not bow. If the convent is truly that bad, the exit is right there. Pull your kid out. Enrol him in the alternative you claim is superior. Nobody is stopping you.#ConventSchools #Conversion #Christianity
Sandeep David S retweeted
June 20, 1942. A car pulls up to the main gate of Auschwitz.
Inside are four men in SS uniforms. The guard doesn't raise the barrier fast enough, so the officer in the passenger seat leans out and screams at him in German to open the damn gate.
The guard snaps to attention and lets them through.
None of them were SS. All four were prisoners. And they had just stolen the car right out of the camp.
The man who yelled at the guard was Kazimierz Piechowski, prisoner number 918. He had been in Auschwitz for two years, since the camp's very first months, when it held mostly Polish political prisoners. He was 22.
His friend Eugeniusz Bendera, a mechanic working in the camp garage, came to him with news. His name was on a list to be executed. He wanted out. He knew where the SS kept their cars. And he could drive.
Piechowski knew something too. Because of his work assignment, he knew there was a storeroom full of SS uniforms and weapons.
So they planned the impossible.
They recruited two more men, a Polish army officer named Stanisław Jaster and a priest named Józef Lempart. On a quiet Saturday, when fewer guards were around, the four of them pushed a cart full of trash out through the camp gate. The one with the words Arbeit Macht Frei over it. To the guards, they looked like just another work detail.
Once outside the inner fence, they slipped into the building with the storeroom. Piechowski climbed in through a coal chute, unlocked the door, and they grabbed SS uniforms, pistols, and grenades.
Bendera went to the garage and took one of the best cars on site, a Steyr reportedly used by the camp commandant himself, Rudolf Höss.
Then they drove calmly through the camp toward the exit.
As they got closer to the final gate, the barrier stayed down. Nobody moved. Seconds felt like hours. The men in the back were sure they'd been caught.
Then Piechowski leaned out the window and shouted at the guard like an angry SS officer.
The barrier went up.
They drove away and ditched the car later. All four escaped.
The Germans were humiliated. Some of the escapees' families paid a terrible price. Jaster's parents were sent to Auschwitz and died there.
But here's the twist. Stanisław Jaster wasn't just escaping. He was carrying something out. A report from inside the camp, written by Witold Pilecki, the man who volunteered to go into Auschwitz to expose it.
Piechowski joined the Polish resistance and kept fighting. When the war ended, communist Poland arrested him for having served in the Home Army and sent him to prison for years.
He lived to 98 and spent his later years telling his story.
A prisoner who spent two years in Auschwitz walked out through the front gate yelling at the guards. In the commandant's car.
Sandeep David S retweeted
This is why I say, don’t believe anything RW says.
RW claimed that Dhruv Rathee had been arrested and wouldn’t be able to return to Germany.
Look where he is now, and he is railing bhakts again!
Sandeep David S retweeted
In 'New India,' human life is quietly reduced to a statistic.
18 dead, 25 injured in a stampede at Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal in North Kolkata.
Locals come to the rescue.
But the show must go on, Amit Shah is given a grand ceremonial welcome with dance and dhol in Kolkata.
Sandeep David S retweeted
The detained women protesters have told Rahul Gandhi about the police brutality they faced in custody, including filthy abuses, attempts to strip them, and assaults on their private parts. Delhi Police brutality is beyond imagination. These are horrifying allegations that demand accountability.
Sandeep David S retweeted
You gotta admire how Neha framed their detention, not as an ordeal they went through, but as a systemic flaw. It isn't "this is what they did to me" but "this is how they treat common citizens everyday".
