By: Entertainment DeskNew Delhi | Updated: November 14, 2025 11:52 AM IST 4 min readZeenat Aman, who is known for being one of the most stunning female actors of all time, has always been a picture of elegance. So when Zeenat’s eye was damaged in an alleged assault by actor Sanjay Khan in 1979, it created a stir in the Hindi film industry. At the time, Sanjay was married to Zarine Khan, and was allegedly having an affair with his Abdullah co-star Zeenat. In a new interview, photographer Jayesh Sheth recalled that Zeenat did a set of photographs after her eye was damaged and posed like a woman with vengeance.In a chat on the podcast The Pooja Bhatt Show, Jayesh shared that he went to shoot some still on the set of Abdullah with Sanjay and Zeenat when they had a “strong affair.” He recalled that at the time, they were filming the song ‘Maine Poochha Chand Se’ at RK Studios and while Sanjay shot comfortably, Zeenat “objected”. “She said, ‘Please don’t publish these pictures, these are personal. I said, ‘Zeenat ji please, these pictures are so fabulous. I request if I can please publish’. She said, ‘Publish 1-2 pictures but I will select which ones’,” he recalled and added that the pictures were well liked and he developed a friendship with Zeenat afterwards.Jayesh recalled that some time after that, the “incident at Taj” happened, where her eye was “damaged”. “When she recovered, we organised a shoot with that little swelling and her damaged eye. I can’t forget that shoot because she was like a tigress. Her hair was open, she was lit from the back and she was giving pose after pose in vengeance. Killer shots,” he shared.Story continues below this adALSO READ | Zarine Khan was heartbroken after husband Sanjay Khan’s affair with Zeenat Aman, quit modelling after his ultimatumHe added that they used a bit of make up but even with that, it was evident that her eye was swollen. “And when the pictures came, she just couldn’t believe it because even with the damaged eye which was slightly touched up with make up, it was still showing. And everyone loved the pictures,” he said.Zeenat has previously spoken about this incident in a chat with Simi Garewal, but she did not name her attacker. She said, “For many years, in my mind, it’s been obliterated because I think that’s what the human mind does. When there is something distinctly unpleasant, you just close your mind to it and pretend that it never happened and you promise yourself that it will never happen again. And that’s how you cope.”Sanjay Khan, while promoting his memoir, The Best Mistakes of My Life, spoke about the incident in a chat with Hrishikesh Kannan and said that it was a PR attack. “I was so pained and horrified with the one-sidedness of the entire story because nobody even asked me what happened. This was a well planned PR attack against me which came like a blitzkrieg,” he claimed.Story continues below this adSanjay added, “I was even accused of her eye going out… she is losing her eye which is not right. If you see ’81, ’82, ’83, ’84, she has done several films. There is evidence to the fact that she has perfect eyes. Later on in life she became a little squint because her mother was squint a little bit. It was a hereditary thing that was labelled one me that I slapped her, I never slapped her, and this was blasphemy.” He claimed that he met her the next day after the supposed incident and claimed that she was “perfectly fine.”Click here to follow Screen Digital on YouTube and stay updated with the latest from the world of cinema.© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd