Shraddha tries hard to rescue the film, but the script totters so badly in the second half that any salvage seems impossible.īy the time the credits roll, even the 'judge' in the movie starts suffering from Lima Syndrome. She gets her mannerisms right and her acting is commendable, worthy of applause. Shraddha Kapoor does very well to transform herself from a simple housewife to the scary Haseena. One starts wondering: Was this the same actor who you saw in the first half?
I had always presumed that movie sequences where reporters run for their lives, were the result of bad scriptwriting. It ended with D-Company goons chasing me down the streets of Mumbai, baying for my blood. In August 2007, I scored an interview with Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar.
If the screen Dawood is not seen speaking to his sister on the phone, Lakhia has the gangster wallowing in a jacuzzi watching news on television or greeting guests with a firangi girlfriend. My Encounter with the Real-Life Haseena Parkar. Like the script, his acting too begins to falter. Siddhanth - Shraddha's brother in real life too - who performs very well in the movie's first half, has little do in the second half. In one scene, Haseena calls Dawood, who is by then living in Dubai, and asks if his thugs planted the bombs in Mumbai that bleak March day, but her brother disconnects the phone call. And that is just some of what Dawood is accused of. No other dirty business for the fugitive gangster. Haseena also claims that all Dawood is involved in is smuggling gold. 'My brother loves Mumbai and he will never do such a thing!' Haseena exclaims in court. She declares that Dawood had no role in the Maserial blasts in Mumbai and that he is no fool to terrorise the city knowing fully well that his sister lived here. In the same way, it appears that everyone working on this movie start sympathising with Haseena, abandoning their objectivity after the interval.Ĭhewing betel nut, Haseena justifies her dubious deeds in court, even defending her brother. Lima Syndrome is the phenomenon in which abductors develop sympathy for their captives. Haseena Parkar’s children and brother fell in love with the way the film was being shot.They had come prepared for the eventuality of falling in love with the film. The director, the script writer, the dialogue writer, even the actors begin to suffer from Lima Syndrome. It has all the ingredients of a good masala Bollywood movie to make it a blockbuster.Īs you return to the theatre with this belief post the interval and the film moves on, you start to wonder: Where is this story headed? Shraddha Kapoor deglamourises herself to get into character and her sincerity as an actress reflects throughout the movie.įor a change, she also does not get wet in the rain like she does in most of her films.īy the interval, you feel Haseena is on the right path. The real find in Haseena is Ankur Bhatia who plays Ibrahim Parkar, Haseena's husband. Siddhanth Kapoor excels as the young Dawood whose only agenda is to eliminate his gangland rivals and dominate Mumbai's crime landscape. The first half of the film makes you feel that no Bollywood movie has captured the ambience and ethos of the Temkar street area as well as Haseena has done.ĭirector Apoorva Lakhia has paid minute attention to detail and you are transported into the 1980s when Dawood began his ascent in the Mumbai underworld. Then Iqbal was held in an extortion case last year, and now, with Rizwan’s arrest, he got very angry.She has a brother. Dawood was already upset with the arrest of his late brother Noora’s son Sohail Kaskar, who was convicted on charges of narco-terrorism, providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to import narcotics. Nawab Malik and kin had bought land at cheaper rate in Mumbai from two convicts of 1993 blasts case: Fadnavis Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday alleged that a company of state minister Nawab Malik and his family members had purchased land in suburban Kurla at a very cheap rate through fictitious documents from two convicts of the 1993 Mumbai serial. While those very young are in studying on foreign shores, others are running shopping malls and other businesses in Gulf countries. Rizwan had apparently acted at the behest of Machmach.Īccording to sources, the day after Rizwan’s arrest, Dawood called up Machmach, who was then in the UAE, and reprimanded him by employing abusive language.Ī source said, “Most children (from the family’s new generation) are away from crime. After the arrest of Dawood Ibrahim’s nephew, Iqbal Kaskar’s son Rizwan, in June in a case related to issuing threats and extortion, the fugitive gangster chastised his lieutenant Chhota Shakeel’s aide Fahim Machmach for dragging the family’s next generation into the world of crime, sources said. MUMBAI: Everything may not be well in D-Company.