Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is out of the ICU (intensive care unit) and is recovering well, doctors who treated him after he was stabbed by an intruder at his Mumbai residence have said.
Mr. Khan was stabbed six times, including in his neck, at his apartment in the posh Bandra West neighborhood around 2:30 am on Thursday.
"Saif Ali Khan is doing excellent. We made him walk and he walked well. There is no problem and not much pain," Dr. Nitin Narayan Dange of the city's Lilawati Hospital said in a media briefing today.
"We have shifted him from the ICU to a special room. The visitors' movement has been restricted for almost a week due to the injury in his spine. It has a potential chance for spreading infection," he said.
Niraj Uttamani, the Chief Operating Officer of Lilavati Hospital, said Mr. Khan "walked in like a lion" and was accompanied by his son Taimur.
"He (Mr. Khan) was soaked in blood when he arrived at the hospital. But he walked in like a lion. He is a 'real hero'," Mr. Uttamani said.
"If a knife was 2 mm deeper, he would have sustained a serious injury," he added.
