Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands

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Dawood Ibrahim, Karim Lala, Varadara- jan Mudaliar: these are names that any Indian would recognise. What is the image that comes into your head when you hear the word Mafia and Mumbai in the same sentence? Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali announced a film titled Gangubai Kathiawadi which is based on the chapter of Gangubai Kothewali from the book. These women have proved that their gender never stopped them from achieving what they wanted to achieve.

Following an attack on the notorious gangster Amar Naik, his brother Ashwin Naik was convinced to join the underworld by his wife Neeta Naik.Read this book to understand what compels people to take up professions or activities that they, in normal circumstances, would never ever take up. I am not stopping yet as this book has made my mind inclined towards reading crime stories and I am going to pick more of his book. In fact, as per the book, she had a clientele ranging from Bollywood to international cricket players.

In Mafia Queens of Mumbai, lives of women who were part of the mafia have been told so well by Hussain S. Her gambling habits at ritzy casinos are the stuff of legend, while she plays mischief-maker on demand at the insistence of her gangster boss. This book by Zaidi and Borges provided a new dimension in the ongoing debate "that female of the species is deadlier than the male.Her debut novel, Bombay Balchão (2019), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar and Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize.

Something with so much potential but because the writing was lacking in coherency, critical thinking, analysis, or even basic human empathy, it proved a difficult read. Gangubai Kathiawadi, the matriarch of Kamathipura, who is revered by all sex workers in her area, to the present day. There are a few girlfriends and mistresses of the gangsters; Shamim Mirza Beg aka Mrs Paul, inamorata of Arif Beg, a close aid of Chhota Shakeel; Rubina Siraj Sayyed, mistress of Chhota Shakeel; Tarannum Khan, a bar dancer who made huge money in cricket betting; Archana Balmukund Sharma aka Manisha aka Lady Don with Killer Looks, her face resembled of Manisha Koirala, the Nepali beauty, she used several men even notorious gangsters for money. 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. I guess I may have to revisit this book sometimes in the future to learn once more about these women and their exploits in the underworld.It also appears from their stories that once they chose that path, there was absolutely no turning back. She loved her husband so much that she decided to kill Dawood and for this went through extensive training of arms and weapons, but she came to dreadful and brutal end. Each chapter focuses on a different women and for each of them, Zaidi finds a way to shove them into a cookie-cutter, 2d version of the original women e.