In a major scare on the eve of his birthday, Bollywood megastar Salman Khan was bitten by a snake in his bedroom at the family's sprawling farmhouse in Raigad, around 45 km from the outskirts of Mumbai. The incident happened in Khan's bedroom after he arrived from a shooting assignment early on Sunday morning, said the actor's 86-year-old father, writer Salim Khan.

"He was right inside the room and suddenly felt some pain in his hand. It was a snake which may have entered the house from some gaps," Salim Khan told IANS from the family's green nest, Arpita Farms, far away from their Bandra home. Immediately, his worried family and panicky security detail checked out the wound, which appeared to be a snake bite, and rushed him in a motorcade to a private hospital at Kamothe in Navi Mumbai.