Writing on account of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Hema Malini said in her letter: "In 'Sholay', I had a agitating co-star called Dhanno. Luckily, this amiable appearance will never apperceive the anguish that her cousins, who are affected to cull joy-carts, endure."

She said that "her affection breaks" whenever she sees the action of the horses who are affected to accord joyrides on beaches, parks and assertive added areas of the city.

"Their legs ache, they ache for bigger nourishment, their throats are arid and the sun beats down on their backs," said the actress.

Joining the attack is amateur John Abraham, who afresh wrote to the Mumbai beneficiary gluttonous a ban on horse-carts on city-limits roads.

"He was told that the affair avalanche beneath the ambit of the cartage department, so he approached them. They, in turn, said the amount apropos the Mumbai collector. In this blame-game, the horses abide to suffer," said PETA agent Sachin Bangera.

An analysis by PETA appear that the horses are fed afflicted aliment and attenuated water.

"Stables are generally damp, filthy, infested with insects and rodents, abounding horses are affected to plan continued hours in the afire sun after any relief," Bangera said.

There are about a brace of hundred horses which are accustomed to ply on assertive Mumbai roads, beaches, parks and added areas, mainly for the account of tourists and children.