Dark & fascinating

Gangsters have always fascinated Bollywood. The Bollywood world ends up having mafia- centred theme, portraying the good vs bad on screen. Shah Rukh Khan recently played a role inspired from Gujarati don Abdul Latif Shaikh in Raees. Shraddha Kapoor will be seen playing Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parker and Arjun Rampal will be seen playing the role of gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli in Daddy!

Here’s a list of few all-time favourite films that portrayed the life and times of the most infamous gangsters on the silver screen:

Friendship turns sour
Company

Company was loosely based on the relationship between Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan, who were once very close. Ram Gopal Varma’s lead actors Ajay Devgn and Vivek Oberoi impressed the audience and critics alike with their performance in the main role.

Tale of two dons
Once Upon a Time in Mumbai

This film throws light on an era when Mumbai’s underworld was getting organised under the leadership of Haji Mastan. Milan Luthria kept the narration extremely dramatic, it managed to remind the audience about that era with characters that were clearly based on Mastan played by Ajay Devgn and his disciple Dawood Ibrahim, played by Emraan Hashmi.

Trail of destruction
Black Friday

Black Friday is a crime film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. This drama probes the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and shows how Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon planned and executed the serial blasts that shook the nation.

Target practice
Shootout at Lokhandwala

Based on 1991 incident, Shootout at Lokhandwala is a real-life gun battle between gangsters and Mumbai Police. A.A. Khan, head of the ATS, attacked the Lokhandwala Complex on 16th November 1991, with a force of around 400 armed policemen. Dreaded gangster Maya Dolas was hiding in that complex.

Dramatic encounter
Shootout at Wadala

Shootout at Wadala is a sequel to Shootout at Lokhandwala. The movie is based on the book Dongri to Dubai by Hussain Zaidi. lead in the film.

Powerful portrayal
Dayavan

Varadarajan Mudaliar was one of the most powerful dons in Bombay. Feroze Khan made Dayavan, which was based on this gangster’s story.