mumbai a few days before audio king gulshan kumar was gunned down dubaibased gangster abu salem had threatened him with dire consequences if he did not purchase audio or video rights of films whose music was composed by nadeem akhtar saifee his brother and prime witness kishan kumar told a sessions court here on friday deposing before judge ml tahilyani kishan kumar revealed that on august 5 he found his brother in a grip of fear and tension gulshan kumar told me that abu salem had telephoned him to say that he was not patronising nadeem and therefore would have to meet with dire consequences i advised my brother to be extremely careful and seek police assistance kishan kumar a prime witness in the gulshan kumar murder case told public prosecutor ujjwal nikam he further said that the second threatening call from abu salem was received on august 9 when he was with him in office i heard gulshan kumar saying salem bhai i had given enough publicity for nadeems album but it had failed in the market nadeem has poor voice and for this i am not at fault i have spent enough money and now spending more sum would be of no use kishan kumar told the court the actor said that he saw gulshan kumar wiping sweat from his face with a handkerchief and heard him telling abu salem now i have a number of films on hand but i have not deliberately stopped buying nadeems films for which you are after my life even then if you want to kill me i am just helpless and i believe in bhola bhandari gulshan kumar had told abu salem after the telephonic conversation gulshan kumar was terribly worried and was trembling kishen kumar told the court when i asked him who had called him he said abu salem had threatened him with dire consequences because he was not buying nadeems albums kumar said in his examination i advised him to approach police but gulshan kumar said that abu salem was a dangerous criminal and would kill him if he comes to know that a police complaint had been filed the witness said kishan kumar said nadeem had repeatedly urged his brother gulshan to purchase the audio rights of his album hi ajnabi in which nadeem had himself rendered songs and the music was composed by the nadeemshravan duo the rights had been purchased by gulshan kumar he said gulshan kumar got one song of nadeem picturised for the publicity of his album hi ajnabi this album did not catch public attention and was a failure in the market nadeem on the other hand was of the opinion that failure of this album in the market was due to lack of publicity by gulshan kumar the witness revealed kishan kumar said on the illfated day august 12 1997 he was woken up from deep sleep by gulshan kumars son bhushan to be told that his father had been shot