Bollywood and controversies have a strong relation. Whether the talk is about casting couch, decadence, nepotism, bias or connections to the high and mighty, Bollywood has surely for long taken centre stage in the global media.

The entertainment industry has time and again got itself in the global gaze with allegations of drug addiction and debauchery surfacing. The controversy spiked after actress Kangana Ranaut made claims about Bollywood’s involvement in drugs. The actress took to her twitter account recently and stated that 90% of those in Bollywood are drug addicts. In the same tweet, Kangana even revealed some big names in the industry as being cocaine addicts. The Tanu Weds Manu actress also claimed that police and politicians, too, are partners-in-crime when it comes to drugs.

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Sunday (October 3) said that children of prominent Bollywood actors are being investigated in connection with a raid that was conducted at a party held on a cruise in Mumbai on Saturday.

Children of prominent Bollywood actors are being investigated, according to NCB officials. Speaking to the media, Sameer Wankhede, NCB Zonal Director said, "So far no arrest has been made by us. We have intercepted some persons. The probe is underway. Drugs have been recovered. We are investigating 8-10 persons," Wankhede told the reporters.

The NCB officials claimed that a few days ago, they had received information about the rave party that was being organized in the passenger cruise ship which was to leave for Goa on Saturday evening. The NCB personnel accordingly booked tickets and boarded the cruise ship disguised as passengers.

“As soon as the cruise left Mumbai coast and reached mid-sea, few passengers started consuming drugs after which the NCB officials then started their operation and caught them red handed,” said a source.

Cocaine and other synthetics drugs have been found in their possession which were subsequently seized during the raid, said officials

The captain of the ship was instructed to take the cruise to the international cruise terminal at Ballard Pier in south Mumbai. Zonal director of NCB, Sameer Wankhede and his team took all the detainees along with their luggages to the NCB office in south Mumbai.

It is also revealed that several people who had come to Mumbai from another state to travel in the ship were not allowed to board sighting a reason that their server was not working. Also it has come to light that the event organisers had overbooked due to which they refused entry to many people.

As reports of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan being detained after raid at drug party emerged, an old clip of SRK’s interview with Simi Garewal from 1997 has popped up on social media platforms. Twitter user Priya Kulkarni shared the clip where SRK was heard saying, “I have just told him that he can run after girls. Smoke as much as he wants. He can do drugs, can have sex. He can womanize.”

Notably, it was a light-hearted conversation with Simi where SRK and his wife Gauri Khan were telling Simi how their son Aryan was closer to SRK and how he would spoil his son in the future.

At around 27 minutes into the conversation, Shah Rukh Khan was responding to a question on how he would spoil his son, who was just a few months old then. “I have just told him that when he is three or four years old, he can run after girls, and smoke as much as he wants, he can do drugs, he can have sex, he can womanise,” he said. Garewal then asks him, “when he is three?”. To that Gauri, Shah Rukh Khan’s wife and Aryan Khan’s mother laughs and says yes, when he is three. Shah Rukh Khan then jokingly adds that he (Aryan) should do everything he has not done.

While he had said these things in jest, his statement from 1997 seems to have come back to bite the ‘superstar’.

Allegations of drug possession against Gauri Khan in 2011

Notably, Aryan is not the only one in the family who got his name involved in a drug case. There were reports in 2011 that SRK’s wife, Gauri Khan, was apprehended at Berlin Airport after a small amount of marijuana was found in her possession. Khan had categorically refuted the claims on multiple platforms over the years, but the allegations did not go away. Several other actors in the film industry have struggled with drug addiction in the past. Last year, a drug racket unfolded during the investigation of actor Sushant Singh Rajput‘s death, and the probe is underway.

Similarly, in September 2020 many star kids were found drinking and doing drugs at one of the party including Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar's son Aarav, Ibrahim (the eldest son of actor Saif Ali Khan), Gabriel D'Souza (son of popular choreographer and director Remo D'Souza), Superstar Amitabh Bachchan's granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda, Ananya Panday, Suhana Khan and Shanaya Kapoor, Sohail Khan's son Nirwan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana Khan and many more. Find the video below:

Also, to be reminded that Kangana had earlier exposed Anti Hindu Narrative and Drugs Racket in Bollywood.