Overview
- An unauthorized video from inside Breach Candy Hospital showing Dharmendra in a vulnerable moment with his family went viral and drew widespread condemnation.
- Amitabh Bachchan criticized the conduct on social media, calling the behavior unethical and “disturbing and disgusting,” joining a chorus of industry voices urging restraint.
- The Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association filed a police complaint alleging paparazzi and online handlers trespassed and violated the family’s privacy.
- Several outlets reported a hospital staffer was identified and arrested over the leak, while Filmfare cited CNN-News18 in saying no arrest had been confirmed, with an internal probe underway.
- Dharmendra was discharged on November 12 and is recuperating at home; Sunny Deol confronted photographers outside the residence, and the family requested privacy after earlier false death reports were refuted.