Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt has broken his silence regarding a harrowing health crisis he faced during his incarceration at Udaipur Central Jail.
In a detailed social media post shared on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, the director recalled a “terrifying” period in January where he suffered from a severe fever and uncontrollable shivering amidst the biting winter cold of Barrack Number 10.
Arrested in December 2025 alongside his wife Shwetambari Bhatt in connection with a ₹30 crore cheating case, Bhatt revealed that despite a doctor’s recommendation for hospitalization, administrative delays ranging from VIP protection duties to tribal fair management left him stranded in his cell for weeks without adequate medical care.
Bhatt’s account paints a grim picture of prison conditions, noting the lack of basic medical equipment like thermometers. He described a desperate turning point where he turned to prayer and a strict self-imposed diet of water, avoiding salt and oil, fearing he would “die in jail” before seeing his children or his 90-year-old father again. “I told my lawyer honestly that I felt I might die there,” Bhatt wrote, adding that by the time police finally arrived to take him to a hospital fifteen days later, his fever had already subsided through what he termed a “miracle.” The filmmaker and his wife were eventually granted bail by the Supreme Court in February 2026.