Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands

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Starlets like Monica Bedi, Preeti Jain and Tarannum Khan have used their beauty to the hilt and others like Rubina and Papamani gave a damn about beauty and ruled the underworld on the basis of their brain powers.

Having lived in Mumbai for many years, I have never encountered or witnessed, thank god for that, the underworld and their dealings. The quality matters not quantity but who am I to say that to a veteran journalist who put his life at risk to bring this book to light for us?k.a Mahalaxmi Papamani, who used to make a profit of around 3lac rupees per month, was equivalent to the salary of a CEO of a company in Mumbai in 1991, was presented and authored by Jane Broges.

If you are one that is fascinated by stories of the underworld, here is a book that is a must-read – at least for getting the facts straight. Please don't read this, I made it to the third story and realised it was a disservice to these women and my braincells if I kept reading. Not much, just that it looked like he tried to cram a few uninteresting ones in the end to fatten the book which he shouldn't have at all. His early experiences as a journalist provided him with a deep understanding of the criminal world and its dynamics.Kudos to her, reading about Papamani only gives me chills, let alone meeting her alone that too in her own area.

Hussain Zaidi through our book club, It was such a delight to see the book was written with a neutral perspective without glorifying or demeaning any of the Mafia queens mentioned in the book. However, she has denied all such allegations in an interview with DNA, in which she said, “I do not know anybody from the underworld. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.The book upfront clarifies that in our Hindi films, these women are shown to be show pieces but in real life, they are women of substance who control many things around these gangsters. Ashraf, who learnt of her husband’s underworld connection only after he was killed, transformed herself into the powerful Sapna Didi, to try and take down her husband’s killer. The story of Jenabhai Daruwali is extremely interesting as she appears to have been a powerhouse in the underworld even during the male-dominated heydays of Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Varadharajan.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Male villains are interesting, but the female ones are more interesting, that's what Vishal Bhardwaj tries to convey in the preface, but as I proceed through the stories of these underworld women, I find in them a lot of innocence, good nature and a bit of cunningness and grey shade. The plot of the Alia Bhatt starrer is picked from a chapter of crime journalist Hussain Zaidi’s book, Mafia Queens of Mumbai.

The title of the book would tell you that the stories are about women who ruled the underworld on several occasions.