Director Mani Shankar's son arrested for obstructing police, assaulting home guard in road rage incident in Hyderabad

Film director Mani Shankar's son was arrested in Hyderabad for obstructing police and assaulting home guard after he was stuck at a traffic signal.

Updated on: Mar 5, 2026, 09:46:40 IST

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Film director Mani Shankar's son was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a case booked against him for allegedly obstructing police officials while performing their duty and assaulting a home guard here, police said.

Mani Shankar's son was arrested in Hyderabad.

Mani Shankar's son arrested in road rage incident

According to news agency PTI, the incident took place on March 1 when the director's son, 40-year-old Prem Shankar, was driving an electric vehicle. The car got stuck near a junction on Road No. 2, within the Banjara Hills Police Station limits, after its battery drained. The police said that after the car stopped on the main road, it caused traffic congestion. A woman constable and a home guard arrived at the scene and tried to move the vehicle, but Shankar refused to allow them, and pushed aside the home guard.

“The constable and the home guard requested Shankar to come out of the car to enable them to shift the car, but he refused to come out and pushed the home guard,” a police official said, according to PTI.

The police later managed to get him outside the car, and the vehicle was shifted from the road even as he managed to escape. Later that day, a case was registered against Shankar under the relevant sections of BNS. The police added that he was arrested on Wednesday.

Mani Shankar's film career

Mani Shankar, born in Hyderabad, is a noted film director, screenwriter, and editor known primarily for his work in the Hindi cinema. He began his career as a director in 1991 with the film, Manishi. But Shankar gained fame with the 2002 sleeper hit, 16 December, following it up with multi-starrer big-budget films like Rudraksh and Tango Charlie. His most recent directorial was the 2023 release, Hey Kameeni.

Shankar is credited for introducing holograms to India, and designed then Chief Minister Narendra Modi's campaign in the 2012 Gujarat Assembly Elections. He has since conducted election campaigns for various parties, including the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Nationalist Congress Party in 2014.

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Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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