Mumbai Mafia: Police vs the Underworld is a documentary directed by Raaghav Dar and Francis Longhurst.
MUMBAI MAFIA: POLICE VS THE UNDERWORLD is a new Netflix documentary in the true crime niche. This time it focuses on how police officers took on the role of judge, jury and executioner. Gangsters were running rampant in Mumbai and especially one policeman wanted to change this.
Directors: Raaghav Dar, Francis Longhurst
Stars: Ravindra Angre, Puja Changoiwala, A.A. Khan
But how far can you go before you become exactly what you're fighting for?! Clocking in at 87 minutes, it's fast to watch and a wild ride.
Continue reading our review of the documentary Mumbai Mafia: Police vs the Underworld below. Find it on Netflix starting January 6, 2023.
The shine and grime of Mumbai comes to the fore in this gripping documentary that captures the extent of organized crime in the city in the 1980s and 1990s. A time when the underworld had its grip on the city and spelled fear and fear. terror. Speaking with key talking heads such as ex-police officers Pradeep Sharma, Ravindra Angre, ex-Additional Commissioner of Police - AA Khan, Shyam Kishore, a former member of D company, the documentary delves into the inner workings of the D-gang. From how Dawood Ibrahim rose to the top of his game by eliminating his rivals to how D Company operated on a large scale having nearly 25,000 people on its payroll. And also how D company spread its tentacles into smuggling, extortion, murder, gambling and even corruption of cricket and movie business. Crime writers and journalists Minty Tejpal, Hussain Zaidi, and Puja Changoiwala add their perspectives, real-life experiences, and voice to this in-depth documentary.
Delving into the realms of investigative and archival footage, 'Mumbai Mafia' brings us real-life events and media clippings of police shootings, which have fueled the subject matter of many Bollywood films including Shootout at Lokhandwala, among others. which lead to the murders of feared mobsters Maya Dolas and Dawood's aide Dilip Buwa. The most important turning point, however, comes with the riots of 1992-1993 and the subsequent Mumbai explosions of 1993, when the police were given free rein to control the Dawood gang. A move that leads to major changes in the Mumbai Police and also shapes the training of Mumbai's best known encounter specialists Pradeep Sharma, Vijay Salaskar, Ravindra Angre.
As the cops take it upon themselves to clean up the city and shake the foundations of D company in the city, fallout and fallout ensues.
Directors Francis Longhurst and Raaghav Dar tell it like it is, using first-person narrations and archival footage to put together a compelling documentary. The intriguing background music and gritty, grainy re-dramatizations of certain parts bring the 1980s and 1990s feel to life. However, in an attempt to cover many aspects, the documentary also opens up too much in parts, leaving some threads to be left behind. halfway and making the narrative uneven. For years, Mumbai's underworld has drawn many filmmakers to explore the subject and with 'Mumbai Mafia - Police vs the Underworld' the filmmakers manage to bring to light some of the chilling and fascinating stories behind 'the capital of organized crime'. from the country'.
In the 1990s, a gang war broke out in Bombay and the city was plunged into chaos of murders, robberies and all kinds of incidents. A group of police officers decided to take sides in the matter in the most violent way.
Obviously, for many people who watch the Mumbai Mafia on Netflix, this is not standard police work. Or shouldn't be. These gangsters must be arrested, go to trial, and if convicted, serve jail time. To be fair, some gangsters also went to jail, but those who crossed paths with the cops from the encounter had a tendency to receive the death penalty right then and there.
So how far can you go as a cop before you become a gangster? Well, as long as the media and people around these cops applaud their actions, you can go on forever. Since they are wearing the uniform and holding the badge, the consequences of their murders are non-existent.
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