Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they have on 71 tapes of bugged calls. Among Shakeel's alleged phone buddies are actors, directors and producers. The tapes still must have their authenticity established, yet they add credence to the popular theory that in India, which makes more films per year than any other nation, the Mob controls most of the movie business...
...Shah has more troubles than a screenwriter could dream up. First, the police claim he was one of Shakeel's long-distance phone chums. Then rival don Abu Salem boasted of his investment in Devdas. Shah was arrested in January 2001, accused of being a front man for the Mob, and was jailed for months before getting bail. Now he's caught between two sets of gangsters. That raises, as they say, loyalty issues; it's like playing the Bosnians against the Serbs. Either group could kill Shah for being a traitor...
...Shah and Dutt are not alone; nearly every Indian moviemaker or shaker has schmoozed with the Mob at some point. "They get the calls and over a period of time they are seduced," says Shridhar Vagal, who heads the Bombay police's crime department. "Before they know it, they have accepted some help and then they go on making incremental compromises." According to Mahesh Bhatt, writer-producer of this year's hit thriller Raaz: "Some people may have embarrassing connections with the underworld, but most film people are just victims." Apparently, victims of a sustained assault by the underworld. Victims...
...director Mukesh Duggal was shot and killed in Bombay and producer Manmohan Shetty barely survived a murder attempt. In 2000, director Rakesh Roshan (Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai), whose son Hrithik is the current heartthrob, survived a murder attempt after refusing to procure Hrithik's services for a Mob-backed film. Last year the onslaught started. Gangsters killed the secretary of Manisha Koirala, a top actress and niece of the former prime minister of Nepal. Hrithik, Govinda, veteran actor Amrish Puri and top director Karan Johar (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham) were assigned armed police protection after receiving death threats. And earlier...
...Thirty years ago, the Mob's ties with Bollywood were mostly social. Gangsters?who, like most Indians, are film fans?would invite performers to cricket matches and lavish parties in Dubai. Stars love star treatment, and the bhais enjoyed flaunting their access to them...