ENCOUNTERS WITH DONS

ENCOUNTERS WITH DONS

HAJI MASTAN: Mastan was the first celebrity gangster of the city of Bombay. He would be often seen rubbing shoulders with politicians, Bollywood actors and actresses and businessmen at parties and functions. His unique traits of dressing completely in white clothes, wearing white shoes, smoking costly cigarettes and driving a white Mercedes made him a “style icon” among the poor and uneducated Muslim youths in the ghetto areas of south Mumbai