Zeenat Aman left her fans in shock on Tuesday, November 7, after she revealed that she had been diagnosed with an eye problem called ptosis. The veteran actress revealed that the condition is the result of a muscle injury that she suffered nearly 40 years ago and shared she was hospitalised in May this year for its treatment. Zeenat has in the past spoken about being subjected to physical violence and many speculate that her condition today is a result of Sanjay Khan allegedly hitting her many years ago.
However, Sanjay (Sussanne Khan and Zyed Khan’s father) denied this on Hrishikesh Kannan’s podcast earlier. He said that he “never slapped her”. Sanjay called it a “PR attack against me which came like a blitzkrieg”. According to him, Zeenat’s injury was “hereditary”.
The altercation between Zeenat and Sanjay reportedly took place while they were filming for the 1980 movie Abdullah. In his 2018 autobiography, The Best Mistakes of My Life, Sanjay omits to mention this incident. When Hrishikesh asked him about the same, Sanjay said, “I was so pained and horrified with the one-sidedness of the entire story because nobody even asked me what happened.” Sanjay said that he was in “exile for four years” after the story broke.
He said, “I was even accused of her eye going out… she is losing her eye which is not right. If you see ’81, ’82, ’83, ’84, she has done several films. There is evidence of the fact that she has perfect eyes. Later on in life, she became a little squint because her mother squinted a little bit. It was a hereditary thing that was labelled on me that I slapped her, I never slapped her, and this was blasphemy.”
Sanjay added that “facts were totally, radically opposite” in the case and that when we met her the very next day, “she was perfectly okay”.
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