MUMBAI: Bollywood is at the risk of facing a serious crisis with SalmanKhan facing the possibility of spending 5 years behind bars for a 1998blackbuck poaching case. With approximately INR6 billion tied to his namein future film projects, Salman Khan has the Bollywood industry prettyworried.

Prominent film-makers throughout the country are anxiously waiting for thefinal bail hearing on Saturday to find out not only the actor’s but theirown production’s fates.

Salman Khan is known for his guaranteed blockbuster films churning out bighits like the Tiger and Dabangg series, which might be a huge reason as towhy he’s been signed up for so many future projects.The films currently under work and those that were about to begin include,Race 3, which is almost complete, Partner 2, No Entry Mein Entry, Dabangg3, Kick 2, Bharat, Sher Khan and Loveratri, according to K Ramji ofKrishnamurthy Films.

Some of the biggest blockbusters like Dabangg 3, Kick 2 and Bharat, have anestimated budget of around INR1 billion to INR2 billion he further added.Salman is currently one of the“most bankable stars” as his films gross overmore than INR2 billion on average.

According to Atul Mohan, a trade analyst, “Salman’s Race 3, which is 90%done with its shooting, will get affected badly if things go wrong. There’salso his television show Dus Ka Dum, which is supposed to go on air inJune.”

Mohan further elaborated, “If the verdict goes against him, as a filmindustry we might lose around INR5 billion every year because his movies doearn that amount of money. I think he might make some arrangement to finishthese two assignments in between because even he does not want his projectsand producers to suffer.”