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Who doesn’t love watching a gangster drama on silver screens, that too played by female actresses?
5 Bollywood Movies On Mafia Queens:
1. Gangubai Kathiawadi
The Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial is based on one of the chapters from Hussain Zaidi’s book, ‘Mafia Queens of Mumbai’. Alia Bhatt plays the titular role in this film – a young woman who was forced to work as sex worker and in no time marks her own territory, a prominent and celebrated figure in the Kamathipua red-light district of Mumbai.
‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ is all set to release in theatres on February 25, 2022!
2. Begum Jaan
Directed by Srijit Mukherji, Vidya Balan played the lead role of a brothel madam in ‘Begum Jaan’. Set in the backdrop of late Indian Independence period of 1948, the movie was released on April 14, 2017. When brothel madam Begum Jaan’s home is divided along the Radcliffe Line during the Pakistan-India partition, she and her prostitutes refuse to leave; the madam fights to save her declining business during the chaotic political circumstances.
3. Haseena Parkar
Based on the life of Haseena Parkar, sister of India’s most wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim, Shraddha Kaapoor played the titular role in this Apoorva Lakhia directorial. The biographical crime drama was released in theatres on 22nd September, 2017.
The syopsis of ‘Haseena Parkar’ reads- “Haseena is very close to her brother Dawood, who turns to a life of crime and rises to power in the Mumbai underworld. After the bomb blasts of 1993, Dawood escapes to Dubai and she falls in trouble.”
