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India.com
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
This actor was once stabbed by his friend, bled excessively, was rushed to hospital, was saved by..., his name is...
This actor was once stabbed by his friend, bled excessively, was rushed to hospital, Om Puri saved him by..., his name is... Naseeruddin Shah is considered one of the most versatile and talented actors that Indian cinema has ever produced. In 2024, the actor introduced his autobiography titled 'And Then One Day' and revealed several interesting anecdotes from his personal and professional life. He also opened up about an incident where he was stabbed by an actor friend Jaspal and Om Puri then interfered to rescue him. During the shooting of his 1977 film Bhoomika, Naseeruddin and Om had gone to have a dinner at a restaurant. Just then, his friend Jaspal, with whom the actor shared a strained relationship arrived at the place. Naseeruddin Shah shared, 'We ignored each other but, eyes fixed on me, he passed to sit on another table behind me, so I thought. After a while, I was reminded of his presence by what felt like a short sharp punch in the middle of my back. I started to rise, wearily preparing myself for another free-for-all. Before I could move, Om with a strangled cry lunged at something behind me. I turned to see Jaspal holding a small knife, its point dripping blood, his hand raised to strike again, and Om and two others grappling to subdue him.' The senior actor than narrated further, 'Om returned to inform me that Jaspal had been taken to the kitchen and was being given the treatment. He wanted to take me to a doctor but was thwarted by the restaurant staff refusing to let us move till the police arrived. When the ambulance came, Om made the cardinal error of climbing in as well without permission and managed to rile the boss-man, thereby asking the cops to be gentle with me. He was ordered to get off and after considerable pleading with the goon in charge was allowed to stay. Neither of us had an idea where we were headed but I prayed it was not the police station.' Naseeruddin Shah was then rushed to the Cooper hospital and later to Jaslok hospital as he was bleeding excessively from his injury. 'The bleeding had not seized, the pain was getting intense and these cops obviously had not quite understood the situation. After a few cursory questions to us, and some garbled transmissions over the radio in Marathi, we arrived at Cooper Hospital in Juhu,' he wrote. The actor also mentioned in his autobiography that Jaspal, after the incident, had arrived to meet him at his home. Rather than apologising, he said that whatever happened wasn't 'personal.'
Indian Express
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Naseeruddin Shah's son Imaad says actor refused to pay for his FTII education, asked him to fund it himself: ‘Baba has his own relationship with…'
Naseeruddin Shah's is a family of actors, both on stage and in front of the camera. Having graduated from National School of Drama, New Delhi, both Naseeruddin and his wife Ratna Pathak Shah always wanted their kids to gain advanced education. However, when they chose not to, it upset them initially, especially mother Ratna. 'I felt we have the resources, and we'd really like our kids to have formal education opportunities. But all of them rejected those opportunities,' said Ratna. 'They did their basic education, but no skilling kind of training did they want from a formal setup. And it bothered me a great deal,' she added. In the podcast on the YouTube channel of Aadyam Theatre, Ratna and Naseeruddin's elder son Imaad Shah recalled that when he told his father he wanted to go to the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), he asked Imaad to fund it himself. 'Baba had his own relationship with FTII,' said Imaad. For the uninitiated, when Naseeruddin Shah was a student at FTII Pune, he participated in a hunger strike because the direction course students outsourced more experienced actors for their short film instead of hiring actors from the acting course at FTII. 'There were actually students of acting who went through their two years without once facing a camera,' he wrote in his 2014 memoir And Then One Day, adding that the event created 'lasting animosities.' Like Ratna, Naseeruddin also wanted his kids to be educated even if they wanted to be actors. 'What the acting profession needs is educated actors. That's a very strong belief I have. Every young man or lady who comes to me and says I want to be an actor, I tell them don't think that means you can skip your education. It's a crying need today. We've had uneducated actors ruling the roost long enough,' said Naseeruddin. Ratna added that she's glad their kids pursued advanced education eventually, even though that was self-taught. 'They are all genuinely self-educated in spite of all the formal education opportunities they had. Their work-related education is almost entirely self-motivated. I find that very fascinating. I wonder what the drawbacks of that are. There are a few, I can see. But it's a terrific way to approach training yourself,' she said. Also Read — 'Grumpy and disinterested' Sanjeev Kumar told Sai Paranjpye that he could spare just 15 minutes for narration, backed out of film because he had beef with Basu Bhattacharya Naseeruddin quoted the examples of late actor Om Puri and late cinematographer Ashok Mehta as self-taught masters of their respective professions. He lauded daughter Heeba Shah for writing plays, which he or Ratna has never achieved. While Imaad also learnt music, and is a member of the band Madboy/Mink, the younger son Vivaan Shah is an author apart from being an actor. He's written three books so far.
