Manoj Bajpayee’s Bhiku Mhatre and Sardar Khan, Nana Patekar’s Anna, Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Faizal Khan, Pankaj Kapur’s Abbaji, Irrfan Khan’s Mia Maqbool, Amitabh Bachchan’s Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, or Sanjay Dutt’s Raghu? Mahesh Bhatt Mani Ratnam Rajpal Yadav, Ram Gopal Varma Jackie Shroff, | | But for Agneepath, Bachchan dropped his intimately familiar voice adopting a gravelly tone, and nobody seemed to mind. Bhiku Mhatre has all that. A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. 18,417 Ram Gopal Varma Action, Crime, Drama. Satya (and the Factory that produced it) created more filmmakers. Milan Luthria DSP D'Silva is the only one who knows about his death, and to get hold of the gang he trains Don-lookalike Vijay. Shiney Ahuja, As the action rushes back and forth, the desire for revenge and the growing greed drives the violence straight to the family estate, a la The Godfather. | Action, Crime. | In the case of Satya, it’s Ram Gopal Varma, the man and his talent and not his creation, that led to a revolution. Director: But the man himself remains an enigma of sorts. Mammootty, A man's friend, a police officer, is assassinated by gangsters in broad daylight. 123 min Stars: Ravi Krishna, “Because Prohibition was hugely unpopular, the men who stood up to it were heralded as heroes, not criminals,” noted The New Yorker in a piece titled ‘Why Do We Admire Mobsters?’ Thus started the popular image of the mobster as a good man forced into the bad job. 9,262 | An account of the gangster Mahindra Dolas and his gang, which terrorized Mumbai City, and a massive war between Mumbai Police and gangs during 16 November 1991. Director: Tabu, Action, Drama, Deena works as a ruffian for his brother Adikesavan, doing his dirty work. Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur I-II is both real and filmy, a culmination of his boyish interest in crime and violence. So, simply put, The Godfather created more films. | Raghuvaran, 142 min “I remember I was in Boney Kapoor’s office and asked him if he can find out from his distributors how the film is doing. Dhansika, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Madhuri Dixit, An orphan named Surya raised in a slum befriends a good crime boss named Devaraj and works for him. The one time Abbaji (Kapur as a dreaded Mumbai don) loses his cool, it’s a scene worth a master tutorial in acting. As Montana explodes in the famous Scarface restaurant scene, telling off a crowd of upmarket diners, “You need people like me so you can point your fuckin’ fingers and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.” Bhiku Mhatre is the bad apple, but one vital difference separates the two. 33,826 A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen. But the badass lines go to the heroines and as usual, they roll it out with abrasive abandon. | Crime, Drama, Thriller. | Consequences force an innocent man to get involved in crime after making an error. Dhanush, | Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s genre-defining Parinda sticks to that tried-and-tested trajectory, but the lynchpin happens to be Anna, the short-tempered mob boss played with manic schizophrenia by Nana Patekar. Arun Gawli, the crime boss-turned-politician, was the creation of the Marathi angst, rampant unemployment and closure of mills in the 1980s. Kamal Haasan, A politically-minded enforcer's misguided trust in his lieutenant leads him to suspect his wife of infidelity in this adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Othello'. Director: He discovers that his elder brother works in the same gang and decides to avenge his friend's death by infiltrating the gang. Sanjay Dutt, | As the director notes in Conversations With Mani Ratnam, “It’s such a pleasure when there’s an actor who delivers more than you can imagine.” Writing on the occasion of the film’s 25th anniversary in The Hindu, Haasan admitted that “Nayakan was one of the films — along with the films I’ve done with Balu Mahendra, K. Vishwanath and, of course, my guru K. Balachander — that made me decide that I should not be doing short-lived masala movies anymore.”, 100 Bollywood movies to watch in your lifetime series | 10 socially relevant films from Bollywood | 10 essential Hindi crime thrillers | 10 book-to-film adaptations | 10 parallel cinema classics, ‘Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahin, naamumkin hai’ — Don. But it’s SRK who looms over Raees, playing this one strictly for the gallery. Director: Enter the seductive Nimmi (Tabu), Abbaji’s much-younger mistresses who will instigate the loyal servant against his master, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the astrology-obsessed duo (Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah as witches). Its success epitomised the sweet victory of the underdog. Stars: | Most mob flicks are based in Mumbai. Take a look at our pick of all-time top 10 Hindi gangsta line-up. Sampath Raj, Vishal Bhardwaj Prakash Raj, Directed by the one-time wonder Chandra Barot (few may have heard of him), Don hews closer to fantasy than reality, but the Salim-Javed creation is every bit enjoyable in the best traditions of mainstream Bollywood. | Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Not Rated The city rewards hard work, smartassery, ambition and a hunger to be at the top. 16,345 Madhavan, Stars: | Menu. | Ramya Krishnan, A young boy's quest for revenge leads him to become a gangster as an adult, and with each day he becomes more and more like his enemies. With that masterstroke, Varma retains a bit of innocence in Mhatre making him a character, like Bachchan’s Vijay in an earlier time, that the audience finds irresistibly worth rooting for. The Guardian hailed it as a “possible turning point in Hindi cinema.” Rightly so. Prakash Raj, | | Kay Kay Menon, A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Directors: | It’s awashed with guns, ganglands, grime, extortion, violence and cuss words. | | Gross: | Action, Comedy, Crime. Action, Crime, Drama. Top 10 Gangster Movies of Bollywood! Among the joys of the film are its catchy lines, the chartbuster songs (“Khaike paan banaraswala” and Helen’s “Yeh mera dil”) and above all, a dapper Amitabh Bachchan at the top of things. Dhanush, Tell us what you think about this feature. $0.29M, Not Rated | Supriya Pathak, Not Rated Stars: Rahman, Director: Dacoit? The decades-spanning, timeline-bursting epic takes us into the heart of dynastic violence with the rise and fall of the Khans, as the coal mafia in the backdrop keeps the engines of power, corruption, cash and vengeance well-fuelled. Shivkumar Subramaniam, Votes: | Action, Crime, Drama. 171 min Mohanlal, Laila, Action, Crime, Drama. 167 min He grabs one devious politician by the throat, not to kill him but to force paan down his throat. Stars: Stars: The rest is history. | Another six months, predicts inspector Pandit and Maqbool, the one born with “rajyog” will not just have Bollywood at his feet, but the entire Mumbai. A prison guard goes undercover as a dancer to try and recapture an escaped criminal and restore her police inspector boyfriend's reputation. Director: Stars: Nana Patekar, This is the kind of film that at some point stopped getting made, after its heyday in the 1970s. Amitabh Bachchan also springs to mind, who headlined Angeepath and Don respectively (both find a spot on our list). A mob boss must deal with a disgruntled mistress and a vanishing bag of cocaine. But none have the impact of the original. It is as direct and straightforward as it can be and in its realistic treatment, abusive language (the Ram-Shyam joke, the bhai slangs like supari, khokha, peti etc that entered popular currency), violence and moral darkness lies its true impact. Nassar, Not Rated Action, Crime, Drama. Director: Mohan Agashe, Not Rated Mahesh Babu, Florian Lukas, Stars: Stars: Crime, Drama. Rajinikanth, Mahesh Manjrekar Karan Malhotra R. Krishnamurthy | There’s nothing flamboyant about the film. Ajay Devgn, Action, Crime, Drama. | | 145 min Tabu, The star’s off-screen image, his involvement with the Bombay blast case, possession of AK-56, his mingling with underworld and an overall demeanour of a tough guy makes Sanjay Dutt a go-to for gold-standard mafiosi. Shubham Tukaram, He discovers that his elder brother works in the same gang and decides to avenge his friend's death by infiltrating the gang. 190 min | Stars: Years later, Raju Hirani would riff on this aspect of Dutt’s persona, presenting him as the loveable Munnabhai. | “Bhiku Mhatre!” Mhatre is the kingpin of Mumbai and of Ram Gopal Varma’s scintillating Satya (1998). Director: 168 min Puri Jagannadh Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines. 157 min So do the characters who talk tough and act rough. Ajith Kumar, | Manoj Bajpayee has given better performances in his long career, but what makes his Bhiku Mhatre special is how he avoids the usual trap of gangster glamour and goes for something goofier and mischievously delightful. | In Mumbai, he is usually born out of joblessness, revenge or simply for easy money. 134 min Amala Akkineni, Is he good or bad? Among Bollywood stars, Sanjay Dutt, aka Raghu of Vaastav, can lay claim to being the prophet of mafia films. 171 min Urmila Matondkar, 170 min Director: Ileana D'Cruz, Stars: | 147 min We are black-collar workers.”. | Many critics argue that before Satya, there was Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parinda, an On The Waterfront spin set in the ganglands of Mumbai. Slickly edited by Renu Saluja, Parinda is an influential Bollywood must-watch made by a young filmmaker who could never match the raw passion of his “first big film.” PS: Patekar is deliciously over-the-top, his wiseguyery bleeding straight into Sher Khan’s evil glee (Jungle Book) a few years down the line. Ram Gopal Varma | “This shot is very good,” a seasoned shooter says approvingly in Maximum City, as they sit around in a hotel room watching Parinda on TV. A common man's struggles against a corrupt police force put him on the wrong side of the law. Ranking all Movies Of Sushant Singh Rajput (Best to Worst). | A killer bandit decides to become a politician in order to avenge deaths in his family. Probably why the stone-faced Arjun Rampal works as the leading man, a cross between brooding detachment and ‘what’s fucking going on his mind, is he stoned’ insouciance. ‘Woh oonchi building mein baithke aap mereko neechi nazar se dekh ke bolte ho, ‘yeh, yeh gunda hai’ — Arun Gawli. Radha Ravi, Director: Extravagantly formulaic, slickly sexy and pure fun, Don is that larger-than-life blockbuster that Shah Rukh Khan tried to revive with both the Farhan Akhtar-helmed remake and Rahul Dholakia’s Raees, but could not match up to the original showmanship of Amitabh Bachchan.
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