Mumbai, June 26
Nearly five years after he was arrested for his alleged links with the underworld, film producer Nazim Rizvi is back in business. He is shooting a film based on his life and some scenes have been shot in jail.
Rizvi was arrested in 2001 after the Mumbai police claimed that he was fronting for gangster Chotta Shakeel and that his movie ‘‘Chori Chori Chupke Chupke’’ had been made with underworld money. Film financier and diamond merchant Bharat Shah was also arrested in the case under the tough Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act.
The matter is now pending in the courts and Rizvi and Shah are out on bail.
Rizvi has now gone public with his new venture, ‘‘Undertrial’’, which he claims contains several scenes from his own experience in jail. Only the main protagonist in the movie is accused of raping his own daughters.
Rizvi, who spent more than three years in jail, says he shot parts of the movie at the Thane Central Jail where he was incarcerated.
