Three days after being shot at near Juhu, the actor's only public gesture was a like on an old bike scene with Kriti Sanon, as Mumbai Police brought fresh suspects in from Kota.
Tiger Shroff still hasn't said a word about getting shot at. But on October 20, two days after unidentified men on a motorcycle allegedly fired at his car in Juhu, he liked something.
The post, shared by an Instagram account on October 20, used a clip from Heropanti, Tiger's 2014 debut, set to his track Raat Bhar. It's the bike scene with Kriti Sanon riding pillion, captioned with a line about disappearing for a night turning into disappearing for life. Tiger's like on it is, as far as anyone can tell, his first social media interaction since the incident. Nobody knows if he meant to hit that button or just scrolled past it. The timing, three days after someone opened fire at his vehicle, has people reading into it anyway.
The actor was leaving after a football match on October 18 when the attack happened. He walked away unhurt. His driver and an autorickshaw driver nearby were not so lucky, both sustaining injuries. Soon after, two men identifying themselves as operatives of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, named as Anil Pandit and Harman Sandhu, claimed responsibility. That claim has not been independently verified by any court, and remains exactly that, a claim.
The investigation moves to Mumbai
While Tiger stayed silent online, the case itself kept moving. In the early hours of Wednesday, October 21, Mumbai Police brought three accused, identified as Phool Singh, Hrithik Kumar and Rehan, from Kota to Mumbai. They were first taken to GT Hospital for medical checks, standard procedure before questioning, and then handed over to the Mumbai Police's Anti-Extortion Cell.
That's four names now connected to the case in some way, two who claimed responsibility and three now in custody and being examined. How those threads connect, who ordered what and why, is for the police to establish. None of it amounts to a conviction yet.
Tiger's team hasn't put out a statement since the firing, which has only made a one-click interaction with an old film clip feel bigger than it probably is. People on timelines are already asking whether this was deliberate, whether it's a message, whether it means anything at all. It might just be a man absently liking a nostalgic edit of his own movie at two in the morning.
What happens next isn't a social media question though. It's whatever the Anti-Extortion Cell gets out of three men pulled off a train from Kota, and whether Mumbai Police can tie the claimed Bishnoi link to anything that holds up.
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