Mumbai don arun gawli biography
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Arun Gawli
Indian gangster
Arun Gulab Gawli[1][2](born 17 July )[3] also known as Arun Gulab Ahir, is an Indian politician, underworld don[4][5] and retired gangster.[6][7] Gawli and his brother Kishor (Pappa) entered the Mumbai underworld in the s, when they joined the "Byculla Company", a criminal gang led by Rama Naik and Babu Reshim, operating in the central Mumbai areas of Byculla, Parel and Saat Rasta. In , after Rama Naik was killed in a police encounter, Gawli took over the gang and began operating it from his residence, Dagdi Chawl. Under his control, the gang controlled most criminal activities in the central Mumbai areas. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Gawli's gang was involved in a power struggle with Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company gang. Gawli is also the founder of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena political party based in Maharashtra.[8]
Early and personal life
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The rise and rise of Arun Gawli, the son of a mill worker and the terror of Byculla
The upcoming movie Daddy, directed by Ashim Ahluwalia and starring Arjun Rampal, is a biopic of Mumbai gangster Arun Gawli. S Hussain Zaidi’s Byculla to Bangkok provides a deep dive into Gawli’s formative years and the ways in which he shed his working-class origins to emerge as one of Mumbai’s most dreaded dons. Here are edited excerpts.
A few decades before the Shiv Sena raised the bogey of ‘Bhaiyya bhagao Mumbai bachao’ (drive out the north Indians and save Mumbai), Arun Gawli had embarked on a similar mission, its forerunner.
Except for the Pathans, who never allowed a non-Muslim into their crime syndicates, the Mumbai mafia was a melting pot of cultures: a miniature Mumbai. When Gawli began establishing his supremacy in the Byculla distrikt, he was first challenged bygd a local gang made up of a majority of north Indians – referred to bygd some as bhaiyyas – and so he became the first gangst
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Arun Gawli: Don turned MLA turned Bollywood muse
Gawli was arrested several times earlier and spent periods behind bars, but he was acquitted as witnesses did not depose against the 90s, he founded the Akhil Bharatiya Sena and was elected MLA in He has remained in jail since , and now has to spend his entire life there. The last time he stepped out was in , when he took leave of parole to attend his son’s wedding in Dagdi chawl.
Gawli had entered the world of brott in the mids as part of the gang led bygd Rama Naik and Babu Resham that used to ensure the smuggled items of the Dawood Ibrahim gang are secure. In the late s, Naik was killed and Gawli, the mos