Bharati Dubey | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; September 23, 2011)

 

Mumbai:India’s most wanted man shot by own relative! No, this is not the fanciful working of a tapori journalist, but a story in reel life. Zubair Khan, son-inlaw of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar, is making a film on the life and crimes of the fugitive underworld don.Zubair Khan (33), who is currently shooting some patchwork for his debut film in Nagpada, told TOI, “The theme is the underworld-politician-police nexus. My film, titled Lakeer Ka Fakir, will be the most authentic movie on the underworld. I grew up in this area and have seen everything from close quarters. I have even shot at all the real locations associated with Dawood, something which no filmmaker including Ramgopal Varma has access to.’’

Like Karim Lala, Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel, Zubair too was born in a hospital at Do Taaki in Dongri, the teeming downtown area long associated with the rise of Mumbai’s ganglords. Claiming to know every nook and corner of the area, Zubair said, “I am comfortable shooting here. Most of the locals are my childhood friends and know me well, so they go all out to assist me. I have included some of them in my movie.”

While gangland films like Shootout at Wadala and Agneepath had no chance to shoot at real locations, Zubair’s relation to the D-clan, a unit member said, is the sole reason he was allowed to shoot at Pakmodia Street, where the don stayed before he fled India, as well as below Haseena More >