New Delhi, June 14 -- Bobby Deol has revealed that the infamous Ranga-Billa kidnapping case, the same crime that now forms the basis of Prime Video's investigative thriller Raakh, had a direct and lasting impact on his childhood. The actor's account, shared on Raj Shamani's podcast, adds a deeply personal Bollywood dimension to a case that terrorised Delhi in the late 1970s and has now been revived for a new generation through Ali Fazal and Sonali Bendre's streaming debut.

According to Bobby, one of his close school friends was kidnapped by the notorious duo but managed to escape when the operation began falling apart. "He was the luckiest of all the people they kidnapped," Bobby said. "There was confusion between Billa and Ranga. My fri...