Speaking on Sunday afternoon, two days after the arrest of Lobo and his murderous associates, Santoshi says, "Fortunately I've been too engrossed in planning my next production to sit and worry about death threats.
Very frankly, I never got any threats directly from them. But yes, some time ago, the cops had intercepted a call from them making a death threat to me. They had given me round-the-clock armed police man for my security as a precaution."
Now after Friday's scary incident Santoshi has been provided extra security. "There're two cops to protect me now. I've full faith in Mumbai's police force. No harm can come to me."
About the return of underworld threats to Bollywood Santoshi wonders, "When had they ever gone? One keeps hearing about extortion and death threats..I can't afford to pay attention to them. If I did my work would suffer."
Santoshi seems to have put his Salman-Ajay Devgan starrer London Dreams on the back burner. "Salman's dates aren't working out right now. So I'm now looking at another project with Ajay."