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

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 .

Subhash Ghai
© Instagram/Subhash Ghai

Seeing Shah Rukh Khan’s son  recently, he recalled the time when 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. 

Aryan Khan
© Instagram/Aryan Khan

It was in the 90s and actors including , , 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  in the 80s.

Bollywood protest against drug
© Koo/Subhash Ghai

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.”

Subhash Ghai comment
© Koo/Subhash Ghai

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

Prateik Babbar
© Instagram/Prateik Babbar

A lot of  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
© Instagram/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.

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