When Anupam Kher was 'bodily picked up by Michael Jackson's bodyguards' during the King of Pop's 1996 Mumbai concert

When Michael Jackson visited India in 1996, actor Anupam Kher had an experience that'll leave you curious about what went after. He told the tale of this photograph of the two of them. Anupam Kher said that he was one of of the "selected people" who waited in a queue to meet the King of Pop in 1996, who was present in the gardens of the Oberoi Hotel and was standing on an "improvised stage with his bodyguards." Film distributor Bharat Shah, who had arranged the meet-and-greet, stepped up and introduced Anupam Kher to Michael Jackson as the "biggest actor in India," according to Anupam Kher, who said he "broke the barricade" to hug MJ and was almost "bodily picked up by Michael Jackson's bodyguards."

Here's what Anupam Kher wrote in this old Instagram post, "When Michael Jackson visited India in 1996 a group of selected people were invited to meet him exclusively at Oberoi hotel gardens. I was also the lucky one. Thanks to Bharat Bhai Shah. There was a small stage set up in the garden with a barricade for the special guests. MJ walked down from his suite and stood on the improvised stage with his bodyguards. There was silence and sense of awe among the selected guests. I was looking at this magician who had enthralled and hypnotised the entire universe with his electrifying performances."

"He was just few feet away from me. I wanted to capture this moment. So, I broke the barricade jumped on the stage and almost hugged MJ. The bodyguards rushed towards me and before they could pick me up bodily Bharat Bhai Shah in panic introduced me to Michael Jackson as the biggest actor in India. He immediately and politely bent down and shook a jubilant me's hands. And my history was captured in this picture."

Anupam Kher's most recent film appearance was in The Kashmir Files which is based on the 1990 Kashmiri Pandit exodus.