This was one spotlight Vijay Mallya would have liked to avoid. As the Enforcement Directorate (ED) began its probe into Mallya's affairs, its offices in Mumbai were flooded with journalists.
This led to a huge rush of onlookers at the ED office in the British-era Kaiser-I-Hind building who thought that a Bollywood movie was being shot there.
Many refused to leave even when told that the TV crew was to get comments from those involved in the Vijay Mallya and Kingfisher Airlines case. Mallya became an unlikely star for hundreds of Mumbaikars outside the ED office even though bankers think otherwise.