00:00How did Bollywood star Tiger Shroff survive an assassination attempt? Literally by the skin of his teeth. Let's dive in.
00:07Tiger Shroff was a frequent visitor to this Pushpa Narsi park here in Juhu, suburban Mumbai. Reports suggest that he
00:14visited this park to play football every evening. And that possibly is how these underworld shooters wrecked him and established
00:23a pattern of his activity so they could lay an ambush.
00:26What was the plan? Well, the plan was to ambush Tiger Shroff as he exited the nursery in his car.
00:35Two shooters standing on the left side of his car would stand here, aim their pistols and fire at Tiger
00:42Shroff as his car exited the nursery. The car had to slow down to exit the nursery.
00:47Now, this is an important detail because it clearly establishes the intent of these shooters of the Lawrence Bishnoe gang.
00:57They wanted to kill Tiger Shroff and not warn him. If they had to warn him, they could have fired
01:02shots outside his house or possibly fired in the air.
01:06But if you look at it, if you look at the videos that have emerged, they clearly wanted to assassinate
01:11him by shooting straight into the car.
01:13Now, let's look at what actually happened on the evening of Sunday the 18th at around 7pm when Tiger Shroff's
01:22car exits the Pushpa Nursery park.
01:25Well, this slowed down footage shows you Tiger Shroff's 7 series BMW car exiting the nursery and you can see
01:34the two shooters standing there in wait.
01:37The first shooter standing right here appears to be a trained professional.
01:42You see his stance, standing with both hands on the pistol. He's aiming at Tiger Shroff and he's shooting into
01:49the car.
01:50He's believed to have fired around 3 or 4 shots into the vehicle.
01:54The other shooter in this black cap here appears to be some kind of an amateur because he first holds
02:02the pistol with one hand.
02:04And it appears that the gun jammed. And that explains why he's unable to shoot.
02:13He switches over to his other hand. He switches the pistol to his other hand and tries to shoot again.
02:22He tries a second time with his left hand. The gun doesn't fire.
02:26And this is possibly the crucial moment that saved Tiger Shroff.
02:32The fact that the second shooter could not shoot and he gave up, turned around and jumped on the bike
02:40and escaped.
02:42Now, very clearly, the plan was for both shooters to fire simultaneously into Tiger Shroff's car as he passed by.
02:49Something like 12, 18, 24 bullets, depending on the magazine capacity of their pistols.
02:56They seem to be 9mm pistols, the most commonly used pistols by the underworld.
03:00The fact that both shooters could not fire and the second shooter's gun possibly jammed, he could not fire.
03:08The first shooter fired, Tiger Shroff had a miraculous escape.
03:12This is as miraculous an escape as it gets.
03:15Shooting a target, even one that's moving in a slow car at about 4 feet, gives the target literally no
03:24room to escape.
03:26And it's only through providential moves like this, the fact that this shooter's gun jammed.
03:32And that explains how Tiger Shroff got away, miraculously.
03:38Well, what could Tiger Shroff have done in a situation like this?
03:41Well, executive protection manuals are very clear in what they must do in a situation like this.
03:49The role of the driver becomes extremely important.
03:52Now, a car like this, a BMW 7 Series, goes from 0 to 60 in 3 or 4 seconds.
04:00It's got a very powerful engine, over nearly 3,000 cc engine.
04:04The car is built like a tank.
04:07So, as they say in the world of bodyguard manuals, that why reach for a 2 kg weapon when you
04:15have a 2.5 ton vehicle, that the vehicle itself can be used to literally ram your way out of
04:22situations like this.
04:23But in this case, the shooters targeted not just Tiger Shroff, but his driver as well.
04:29The driver was injured and Tiger Shroff then drove his driver to a hospital for him to be given first
04:38aid.
04:39And the fact that Tiger Shroff escaped with minor injuries tells you how providential an escape this was.
04:45I mean, this, of course, is the return of the underworld to Bollywood after several years.
04:50Because back in the 90s, you've had situations where very high-profile Bollywood personalities like Kulshan Kumar were assassinated by
05:00the underworld, by the Dawood Ibrahim gang.
05:02Rajiv Rai was threatened by the underworld.
05:05Those days seem to have returned.
05:07And one can only hope that incidents like this don't become a staple in Mumbai as they once were in
05:14the 1990s.
