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     Swades Junior Artist Username: Swades Post Number: 351 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 49.204.150.177 Rating: N/A |
Rahul Dholakia said SRK character in Raees is inspired by a real life person. Abdul Latif is the one. Farhan Akthar will be playing the role of a cop. | ||
| Swades Junior Artist Username: Swades Post Number: 350 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 49.204.150.177 Rating: N/A |
In the late 1980s, Abdul Latif was the underworld king of Gujarat. Based in Ahmedabad, politically well networked, he made a fortune in the bootlegging industry. His criminal empire in Gujarat extended from bootlegging – with which he began his career as a delivery boy in 1980 – and hawala to land deals and contract killings. Although Latif’s main business interest was said to be bootlegging, he was also alleged to have had a hand in receiving and distributing armssmuggled into the country through villages on the western coast of Gujarat Latif. incidentally, is seen as a modern-day Robin Hood by the underprivileged Muslims of Ahmedabad. There are numerous instances of his having given jobs to Muslim youths: he was also known to run a parallel justice system. In November 1997, Latif was killed in an encounter by the Ahmedabad police. He was under arrest and had allegedly tried to escape while using the toilet. Another important character in the scenario was his driver, Sohrabuddin Shaikh, apparently responsible for, in one daring move, hiding a huge cache of weapons meant for terrorist groups |
