Overview
- The director recounted that the episode took place during his Hindu College years in the early 1990s and he graduated from the college in 1993.
- Ali says men arrived around 2 a.m. in a cycle rickshaw, took him from his hostel and brought him to a government‑quarters‑style building in the university area to meet a gang leader.
- He told the interviewer the confrontation began over a political poster and ended when the leader learned Ali had moved the poster rather than torn it, then slapped the man who had lied and released him.
- Reporters note the story was told by Ali on Unfiltered by Samdish while he is promoting his film Main Vaapas Aaunga, and News18, The Indian Express and Hindustan Times have carried his first‑person account.
- The accounts name a gang leader allegedly linked to a political party but contain no independent verification and no public response from the named student groups or political parties has been reported, raising questions about past campus coercion and accountability.