Bollywood Producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi With Alleged Underworld Links Dies in Mumbai

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Film producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi whose hit movie “Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke” (2001) blew the lid off the Bollywood-Mafia nexus handed away at a personal hospital right here, trade sources stated on Tuesday.

Bollywood Producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi Dies in Mumbai: Controversial movie producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi whose hit movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001) blew the lid off the Bollywood-Mafia nexus handed away at a personal hospital right here, trade sources stated on Tuesday. Admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) for sure undisclosed illnesses, Rizvi breathed his final whereas beneath remedy late on Monday. Said to be in his early 70s, his mortal stays are being taken to his native place in Uttar Pradesh for the funeral.

Rizvi had additionally produced different inferior movies corresponding to Majboor Ladki (1991), Apaatkal (1993), Angarvaadi (1998), Undertrial (2007), Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke (2001), Hello, Hum Lallan Bol Rahe Hain (2010), Qasam Se, Qasam Se, (2011), and Laden Aala Re Aala (2017). However, he’s broadly identified for the musical hit “Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke” starring the highest trio of that point — Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta — which mentioned the subject of surrogate motherhood for the primary time on the silver display screen. Nevertheless, the movie, which shot him into huge league, additionally made information for different unsavoury causes. Shortly earlier than its launch, Rizvi and one other financer Bharat Shah have been arrested in December 2000 for allegedly diverting tainted underworld-linked cash for the film manufacturing.

The gorgeous expose was made by a crack workforce of Mumbai Police Crime Branch comprising former encounter-specialists’ who had shadowed Rizvi, his associates, and investigated the case in depth earlier than lastly swooping on them. The Mumbai Police had charged the Rizvi-Shah duo with allegedly receiving funds from the Mumbai mafia, particularly from Shakeel Babumiyan Shaikh – dreaded as Chhota Shakeel – and an in depth aide of the absconder underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar.

Rizvi had been beneath surveillance for his alleged murky actions for months earlier than the arrest by the Mumbai Police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which later seized the movie’s negatives and prints, and deposited them with the Special MCOCA Court in Mumbai. The movie was lastly launched beneath the Special Court’s order, with an unprecedented directive that every one earnings earned by the film ought to go to the Maharashtra authorities treasury. Interestingly, the movie’s credit had acknowledged the position’ of the Special MCOCA Court, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch and the Court Receiver with out whose untiring efforts and good places of work the image would by no means have been made.

Prior to its official launch, the Mumbai Police got a particular screening as per a earlier dedication and to make sure that there was no objectionable content material within the movie. Ironically, throughout its formal launch in cinemas in March 2001, the place it bought enormous preliminary response, each Rizvi and Shah remained in jail, and later they have been awarded six years and one 12 months in jail, respectively. “It was the film ‘Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke’ that is said to have convincingly proved the long-suspected theory of Bollywood-Mafia, bhai-bhai’,” a veteran Bollywood producer instructed IANS, preferring anonymity. However, the movie’s fiasco and its aftermath opened various doorways for extra respectable channels of movie financing like banks, later some firms, company homes and even MNCs getting into the scene, he defined.

He recalled how that was a attempting interval for Bollywood which was reeling beneath immense pressures from the underworld and mafia dons Gulshan Kumar was shot lifeless (August 1997), Mukesh Duggal was killed (March 1998), and an unsuccessful warning’ assault was made towards Rakesh Roshan (January 2000), in addition to different related scary developments that rattled Bollywood biggies.

Many quietly concurred’ or cooperated’ with the mafiosi, whereas a number of daredevils have admitted to getting loss of life threats, extortion calls and different types of intimidation from numerous underworld gangs in India and their shady operatives from international locales.

Except for the heading, the content material is attributed to IANS.

Published Date: February 7, 2023 7:45 PM IST