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Chhota Rajan Inspired Bollywood Movies

October 27, 2015 by BollywoodPresents Team

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There’s no doubt that Bollywood has a fascination for gangsters, and when it comes to making movies, there are only two big names that they can look up to – Dawood Ibrahim & Chhota Rajan. What makes it even more interesting for Bollywood is that these two were friends at one time and turned foe later (after the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts).

Now that Chhota Rajan has been arrested by the Indonesian police (Australia & India were also involved in the operations), we take a look at the Bollywood movies that have been based on the life of dreaded gangster Chhota Rajan…a couple of the films were very good actually.


WATCH: Chota Rajan Arrested in Bali | India’s topmost underworld Gangster caught

What made Chhota Rajan’s life worth a cinematic treatment was his rags-to-riches sort of story, and how he climbed up the ladder in the gangster world.

Born into a middle class Marathi family, Chhota Rajan took to black marketing of Bollywood film tickets and gradually made his way to bigger crimes like murder, extortion, arms smuggling and more. He earned his name Chhota Rajan only when he took over the gang, which was led by his mentor Bada Rajan after he was killed in the 1970s.


“Ganda Hai” song from movie ‘Company’ featuring Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi

Bollywood’s fascination with the underworld has continued and evolved over the years. From the 1989 film Parinda, which was India’s entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; to Khalnayak, Satya, Hathyar, Maqbool, D, Gangster, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Shootout at Wadala and Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!.

Here are some of the top Bollywood movies that were based on Chhota Rajan’s character.

Ram Gopal Varma’s Vaastav: The Reality and Mahesh Manjrekar’s Vaastav are some of the movies that blatantly depicted characters inspired by Chhota Rajan, who operated from Mumbai and is wanted in India for a series of serious crimes and murders. He has been nabbed in Bali on Sunday.

Vaastav: The Reality, a critically acclaimed film released in 1999, is a hard-hitting tale of the transformation of an innocent young man and how he gets sucked into the dark and dreadful world of the mafias, and emerges as a powerful gangster. The film, though primarily about guns and goons, it also had a slight love angle.

The film, produced by Chhota Rajan’s brother Deepak Nikalje himself, continues to be one of Sanjay Dutt’s finest performances.


Sanjay Dutt as Raghu Bhai in movie ‘Vaastav’

Chhota Rajan has not been at the core of many movies, unlike dons like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel, but the 2002 film ‘Company’, another film that reflected on his life.

Described by many as a “fictional expose” of the mafia organisation D-Company, run by Dawood Ibrahim, the movie particularly zoomed the camera on the fallout between Dawood and his close aide Chhota Rajan. Intense actor Ajay Devgn starred as Malik — loosely based on Dawood, while Vivek Oberoi lent his raw acting skills in a powerful performance as Chandu — a take on Chhota Rajan.

Having garnered critical acclaim, the movie also, in its own way, traced Chhota Rajan’s rise to fame in the underworld, and his eventual rift with Dawood.


Company movie trailer featuring Ajay Devgn and Vivek Oberoi


Varma’s Satya 2 also seemed to have hints of Chhota Rajan’s life, but the filmmaker, who is known for his deft handling of such sensitive and crime-related subjects, had denied any such influences.

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