India, Oct. 30 -- A tense hostage situation unfolded in Mumbai's Powai on Thursday afternoon after a man, identified as Rohit Arya, took 16 children hostage inside a local acting studio.

Before police rescued the children, Arya circulated a video message in which he said he was holding the kids hostage as he wanted to get some answers from 'certain' people to his "simple, moral, and ethical" questions.

According to the police, Arya took the children, aged between 8 and 14, hostage while they had gathered at a local studio, RA studio, for an "audition" for a web series.

Around midday, he circulated a video, roughly a minute and a half long, in which he explained his motive and warned authorities against any "wrong move." The footage soo...