Haji Mastan & Mumbai Underworld

From the archive record

Saawan Kumar: There was nothing certain and spread around just as a rumour and went on a long time until the shooting started, then the police, the media, and the newspaper accepted then the public came to accept that there was a thing called 'Underworld'. When I first heard about Haji Mastan, I heard he was a smuggler, of luxury watches, gold, whiskey, etc but later the news die down, only to come back with an affair story with actress Sona, the whole world came to know about him through it. Whether the influence is positive or negative, only those people who were in direct contact with them will be able to tell, I have no relations or know nothing of them. Just because a handful of people have connections or took finance from the underworld does not mean the whole industry was to be blam