What’s something eerie that you discovered about a Bollywood celebrity, actor, or actress while reading a completely unrelated article that simply gives you the shivers?

I happened to recollect a movie of Rajesh Khanna’s, which had received a whole lot of ridicule because of its rather cheap and sleazy scenes. The movie was Wafaa which had Rajesh Khanna acting with an actress named Laila Khan. This was during his later years, and I remembered reading that his daughters and son-in-law (Akshay Kumar) had tried to stop him from acting in movies after that movie. After seeing him in images like the ones below, I think they certainly had a point, what?

So, I wanted to check Rajesh Khanna’s filmography to see if this was indeed his last movie. It was quite obviously a very poor movie, but due to its sleaze factor got a bit of media attention (mostly negative). Also, the film director was our very own Rakhi Sawant’s brother - interesting. Anyway, it turned out that Rajesh Khanna did a few more after Wafaa. But I happened to read a few articles in connection to this movie that led me down the rabbit hole of astonishing information.

So, what was the eerie thing I found out?

While it was shocking indeed to see Rajesh Khanna in such a sleazy movie, the real shocker for me was discovering that the actress Laila Khan was apparently murdered along with her family back in 2011 [1–3]. Apparently, she disappeared first, and everyone thought she’d skipped town. But then they found human remains, and that’s when the murder was unearthed.

From what the police finally determined, the murder was committed by her step fathers, one of whom was a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba member. Laila Khan herself was apparently married to a certain Munir Khan, who was a member of a Bangladeshi terrorist group, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami.

Now, I don’t want to speculate here about whether she and her other family members knew what their two terrorist affiliated family members were up to, but in any case, this information was super shocking for me. First of all, it was a shock to discover that a Bollywood actress (even if she wasn’t a big one) was murdered. But the bigger shock was seeing how two of her family members were terrorist group affiliates.

Conclusion

It is so interesting that we sometimes learn things which we never knew had happened, and through totally unrelated means. I mean to say, in this case, I went from a desultory read on Kaka’s sleazy movie to finding out about an actual eerie murder/homicide incident, with shades of terror thrown in. It’s quite