In a major scare on the eve of his birthday, Bollywood megastar Salman Khan was bitten by a snake in his bedroom at the family`s sprawling farmhouse in Raigad, around 45 km from the outskirts of Mumbai. The incident happened in Khan`s bedroom after he arrived from a shooting assignment early on Sunday morning, said the actor`s 86-year-old father, writer Salim Khan.

"He was right inside the room and suddenly felt some pain in his hand. It was a snake which may have entered the house from some gaps," Salim Khan told IANS from the family`s green nest, Arpita Farms, far away from their Bandra home. Immediately, his worried family and panicky security detail checked out the wound, which appeared to be a snake bite, and rushed him in a motorcade to a private hospital at Kamothe in Navi Mumbai.