Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed multiple times with a knife at his Bandra residence in the wee hours of Thursday.
Highlighting the potential dangers celebs face, here are 7 other instances when mainstream faces were attacked or came close to dying:
Rakesh Roshan: On the evening of January 21, 2000, the director was shot by two unidentified individuals close to his office on Tilak Road.
Amitabh Bachchan: He was clinically dead for a couple of minutes after an accidental attack on the set of the movie Coolie in 1982.
Gulshan Kumar: The founder of T-Series, was shot 16 times and killed on August 12, 1997, when he was on his way to a temple in Juhu.
Preity Zinta: The actress received death threats and ransom calls from the underworld when filming 'Chori Chori Chupke Chupke'.
Gauahar Khan: In 2014, an audience member unexpectedly approached Khan and slapped her, leaving her in tears.
Karan Singh Grover: The actor was slapped on the sets of 'Dill Mill Gayye' by former wife Jennifer Winget over cheating allegations.
Ranveer Singh: The actor was accidentally slapped by his bodyguard on September 10, 2022, at the 10th SIIM Awards in Bengaluru.