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TopicMumbai Underworld

Topic: Mumbai Underworld

Dawood Ibrahim is a gift that keeps giving. Bollywood’s O’Romeo to Black Friday

Books, bhais, and Bollywood. Every Mumbai gangster film leads back to Dawood. With O'Romeo, Bollywood is mining new — but still D-adjacent— antiheroes.

Underworld is not dead. It just turned remote and tech-savvy, says Rakesh Maria

The launch of Rakesh Maria’s book, ‘When It All Began’, was a star-studded affair. Rohit Shetty, Mahesh Bhatt, Nana Patekar, and Ajay Devgn were present.

When gangsters Amirzada and Alamzeb made an enemy of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar

In 'When It All Began', Rakesh Maria reflects on the tumultuous history of Mumbai's underworld, tracing the full arc of the city's gang wars.

Mumbai underworld gone, Bollywood gets a menace for the digital age: Lawrence Bishnoi

For Mumbai, Baba Siddique's killing was a nasty déjà vu. Lawrence Bishnoi is now seen as attempting to fill the void left by the city's once powerful organised crime syndicates.

Haji Mastan, Gawli to Salim Kutta, Maharashtra politics has been linked to underworld for 30 yrs

Many politicians were accused of links — from Indira Gandhi meeting Haji Mastan & Karim Lala, to Bal Thackeray backing Arun Gawli, and various charges against Sharad Pawar.

Wife of ‘Dawood aide’ claims husband forced her into sex work, names sportspersons & politicians

Rehnuma is the wife of Riyaz Bhati, a suspected Dawood Ibrahim aide who faces multiple cases, including alleged extortion, forgery and land-grabbing. 

‘Bomb vs hydrogen bomb’: Fadnavis links Nawab Malik to underworld, minister says will retaliate

BJP’s Fadnavis alleges NCP minister Nawab Malik bought land for a pittance from a 1993 Mumbai blasts convict and Dawood’s sister’s right-hand man. Malik says purchase was legal.

Ravi Pujari — English-speaking don, ‘Preity Zinta fan’ in Mumbai Police custody after 25 yrs

Gangster Ravi Pujari was brought back to India over 25 years after he fled. He was intercepted at a barber’s shop at Dakar in Senegal in 2019. There are 49 cases registered against him.

Mumbai gangster watched the film Satya 18 times to study how to become a real-life villain

Puja Changoiwala’s book 'Gangster on the Run' is about criminal-turned-marathon runner Rahul Jadhav, whose pseudonym ‘Bhiku’ was inspired by the 1998 film Satya.

Param Bir Singh — ‘encounter specialist’ IPS officer & Mumbai top cop caught in Sena-NCP tiff

Seemingly stuck in the Sena-NCP tug of war in Maharashtra, Param Bir Singh is a celebrated IPS officer but one who has also courted multiple controversies.

On Camera

India’s real estate will meet the reality of agentic AI

New Delhi: The outsourcing industry, India’s largest white-collar employer, is a juggernaut that has all but stopped moving. The dollar revenue at the top...

Adani’s giant copper plant hits technical setbacks in first year

The 500,000 tonne-per-year plant produced just 94,000 tonnes of refined copper from April 2025 to February this year.

Indian drone tech company ideaForge signs MoU with Japanese firm to develop next-gen AI powered drones

By pairing Indian drone engineering with Japanese semiconductor expertise, the two firms aim to develop more advanced autonomous systems tailored to both defence & commercial use.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.