Showing posts with label Daya Nayak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daya Nayak. Show all posts
Ram Gopal Varma has already seen the scene from ten different angles-Harshvardhan Rane
9:56 AM
Vinay MR Mishra (MUMBAI MIRROR; October 7, 2026)
Actor Harshvardhan Rane is going to play the character of Daya Nayak in his next directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Ask him what's it like to be on the sets of his movie, and Harshvardhan says, "Being on Ramu sir’s set feels like entering the mind of someone who has already seen the scene from ten different angles. He is not interested in making you 'perform' he watches behaviour, instinct and the smallest reactions. That keeps you alert because anything false is immediately visible to him. There is freedom on his set, but that freedom also demands complete honesty."
He goes on to admit being a fan of Varma's work, and shares, "Working with him was something I had quietly hoped for. But when it finally happened, I tried not to approach it like a fan fulfilling a dream. I approached it like an actor who had been given a serious responsibility—and wanted to earn his director’s trust every day."
He adds, "Films like Shiva, Satya and Company didn’t just entertain us; they changed the grammar of Indian crime cinema. Ramu sir made silence, fear and unpredictability feel cinematic."
On playing the cop Daya Nayak, Rane states he wanted to understand the character internally. "I studied the facts, listened to Daya sir, understood Ramu sir’s interpretation—and then tried to find my own honest version of him," he adds.
Harshvardhan Rane began his acting career with television before making his Telugu film debut with Thakita Thakita (2010). He went on to feature in films including Naa Ishtam, Avunu, Prema Ishq Kaadhal, Maaya and Avunu 2, before making his Hindi breakthrough with Sanam Teri Kasam (2016). His subsequent work includes Paltan, Taish, Haseen Dillruba, Tara vs Bilal, Dange, Savi, The Miranda Brothers and Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat.
Ram Gopal Varma eyes gritty biopic on encounter specialist Daya Nayak
10:49 AM
Mohar Basu (MID-DAY; June 18, 2026)
It’s going to get dark, gritty, and bloody when Ram Gopal Varma dives into the underbelly of Mumbai’s crime world, where the line between law and outlaw is razor-thin. Industry sources tell mid-day that early discussions are underway for the filmmaker to direct a biopic on celebrated Mumbai encounter specialist Daya Nayak. Multiple insiders indicate that the project will be backed by a big studio.
“The idea has been around for a while, but in recent months there has been renewed movement on it. Right now, the priority is getting the screenplay right and deciding the lens through which Daya Nayak’s story should be told,” says a source familiar with the development.
The film could potentially be positioned as a revival of the ‘Company’ franchise. Varma had once planned to make ‘Company 2’, centred on encounter specialists, with Nayak reportedly serving as a consultant, says another insider.
“In 2010, there were conversations around fitting it organically into the larger world of ‘Company’. While nothing has been decided yet, it has come up during discussions.”
Salman Khan firing case: Pistols used in attack recovered from Tapi river
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The second gun was recovered from Tapi River in Surat on Tuesday. Pic/ANI
Ahmed Ali (THE TIMES OF INDIA; April 24, 2024)
Mumbai: The Mumbai crime branch probing the April 14 firing on actor Salman Khan’s house has recovered the second gun, along with two magazines containing 17 bullets, that the alleged shooters threw in the Tapi river in Surat in their attempt to cover their tracks. The first gun was found earlier in the river on Monday.
The recovery of both the illegal country-made pistols from the riverbed, which in some places was 20m deep, was made with the help of Dubai-based Envitech Marine Consultants, which had earlier helped investigators recover the alleged weapon used in rationalist Narendra Dabholkar’s murder and had offered its services in tracing MBBS student Sadichha Sane, who went missing from Bandra Bandstand in Nov 2021.
The crime branch’s unit 9 team, led by inspector Daya Nayak, reached Tapi river along with one of the alleged shooters, Vikas Kumar Gupta, who showed them the railway bridge from where he and his accomplice, Sagar Kumar Pal, threw the two weapons and the magazines. Five scuba divers, equipped with floodlights and powerful magnetic equipment, scoured the river for the guns.
After a search of nearly eight hours, they found one pistol and four more hours later, they were able to trace the second weapon and the 17 bullets. Police performed the videography of the recovery and made a spot panchnama.
“We used the technology of using powerful magnets underwater to detect the weapons. Our company had similarly removed a weapon in the Dabholkar case for the CBI. In this operation, in some places, the river was 20m deep. It was a big challenge, but our efforts yielded results,” said Vishnu Sharma, an official of Envitech.
Police said the seizure of the two pistols will help them build a watertight case against jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is alleged to have ordered the firing. They said they have already established the chain of events and the sequence of crime to show that Lawrence and his Canada-based brother Anmol Bishnoi are wanted accused in the case.
Police are now working out how many bullets were with the alleged hired henchmen. “Anmol Bishnoi had arranged for two weapons and 35 bullets, of which they fired four rounds at Salman Khan’s balcony. One bullet fell to the ground, and now, we have recovered 17,” said a source, adding that police suspect the remaining were used by Gupta and Pal while practising firing in Bihar. The two, hailing from Bihar, were arrested from Bhuj on April 16.
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Crime branch also recovers four magazines, 13 live rounds from river in Gujarat
Shirish Vaktania (MID-DAY; April 24, 2024)
The Mumbai Crime Branch Unit-9 has recovered the two pistols used in the Salman Khan firing incident, along with four magazines and 13 live rounds from the Tapi River in Surat, Gujarat. The two pistols recovered by the crime branch are suspected to be foreign-made weapons, possibly of Chinese or Pakistani origin. The crime branch deployed skilled divers from Mumbai who used magnetic equipment to locate the firearms in the Tapi River. The first pistol was recovered on Monday from the same spot.
Senior Inspector Daya Nayak, leading Crime Branch Unit-9, accompanied one of the accused, Vicky Gupta, to the Tapi River to pinpoint the location where they disposed of the pistol. Gupta identified the pistol and confirmed its use in the firing incident.
The Tapi River in Surat flows through Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh. It has a depth ranging from 20 feet to 30 feet during high tide and a variable flow speed of 2-15 kmph, depending on winds. Strong undercurrents in the river made it challenging for divers to retrieve the objects in a stretch spanning approximately 1.2 km. The crime branch launched a search operation to recover the firearms from the river after Gupta revealed during interrogation how they had escaped and discarded the firearms.
According to a police officer, the brother of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Anmol who claimed responsibility for the attack, had instructed the shooters to fire at least 10 rounds at Khan’s residence. Anmol had also planned their escape. An officer stated that the Bishnoi gang, with over 700 operatives across five Indian states, is known for its distinctive firing patterns.
The gang operates primarily from Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, with international networks extending to countries such as Italy, Armenia, Canada, Dubai, the Philippines, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. The duo, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal used the same firing pattern the gang is known for, including in the assassination of Punjab singer Sidhu Moose Wala and others.
I will fight for my daughter’s Indian nationality and custody-Faruk Kabir
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Neha Maheshwri (BOMBAY TIMES; January 8, 2024)
Filmmaker Faruk Kabir had hoped for a happily ever after when he married Shoksanam, a 20-year-old Uzbekistan national, in December 2022 in Delhi. A year later, his marriage has taken an ugly turn. The ‘Khuda Haafiz’ director says that his wife fled from Mumbai with their newly born daughter Aarya Fiza Kabir, her parents (Dilfuza Gaipov and Tejas Khanna alias Muhammad Ali), and her brothers on December 20.
Faruk promptly filed a habeas corpus plea with the Bombay High Court on December 26. Swift action from law enforcement resulted in stopping them from leaving the country. They were traced in Amritsar, following which the baby girl, Shoksanam, and her mother were brought back to Mumbai.
‘I couldn’t stop crying while cradling my daughter’
After 11 days of running from pillar to post, Faruk finally held his baby girl on New Year’s Eve. He shares, “I couldn’t stop crying while cradling her. My daughter was with me for about half an hour before she was taken away along with Sanam, and her family by the Versova police. While Tejas Khanna is still at large, the rest are out on conditional bail, prohibiting them from leaving the city.”
‘I didn’t marry and relocate. Sanam moved to India with me’
The habeas corpus petition is listed to be heard on January 16. The filmmaker plans to appeal for the right to see his daughter, spend a few hours with her a day, and get her Aadhaar card and Indian passport. “Aarya is a citizen of India by birth and ensuring she gets the nationality she belongs to is my fight. I didn’t marry and relocate. Sanam moved to India to live with me,” he exclaims.
‘Sanam’s family wanted our daughter to have an Uzbekistan birth certificate’
Ask him what led to this unexpected turn of events, and Faruk replies, “It was a happy marriage until our daughter was born. I was informed that Sanam’s mother and her stepfather wanted our daughter to have a birth certificate from Uzbekistan. I was baffled because Aarya was born here. I tried to reason with them, but they were adamant about obtaining Uzbekistan nationality for her. Sanam argued that, as a Muslim, she felt unsafe here, but I thought it was an excuse. I am a Muslim and have never faced any discrimination in my country.”
“Now, when I look back, I realise it was all part of a plan, even the marriage. It is a classic case of baby trapping. They thought they would be able to escape with my baby and continue tormenting me. However, I am not going to be silent because I have nothing to hide,” he retorts.
How Faruk and Sanam met
Faruk met Sanam in 2019 while he was shooting in Uzbekistan. He recounts, “My ‘Khuda Haafiz’ (2019) crew hired Sanam’s parents as interpreters. In 2022, I revisited Uzbekistan. Her family got in touch with me again, and Sanam and I discussed a potential future together.”
‘They were planning to escape to Uzbekistan with my child’
He believes Sanam was influenced by her parents when she travelled to Uzbekistan in July 2023. Sanam’s parents and her brothers came to India to stay with her 15 days before her delivery. He recounts, “My baby was born on November 29, and by December 9, Sanam’s stepfather had procured an emergency travel card for her that read, ‘Return to Uzbekistan’. How can she return to a country she doesn’t belong to? Besides, I had not given consent for that, which means that possibly a forged undertaking or NOC with my fake signature was likely presented to the officials. Fortunately, the FRRO (Foreign Regional Registration Offices) asked them to produce a copy of the electricity bill, which they couldn’t, thwarting their plan of escaping to Uzbekistan with my child overnight.”
‘I want my daughter with me’
While it appears to be a long-winding legal journey ahead, Faruk is ready for it. He asserts, “I know this is the beginning of a long battle. Now that my baby has been found, I want her to be with me. I also hope the police will act on my complaint for forgery, impersonation, and identity theft, filed on December 16. I will go to the courts to fight for my daughter’s custody and demand the issuance of her Indian passport and Aadhaar card, which is her right.”
Police Speak
Senior PI Crime Branch Zone 9 (Mumbai), Daya Nayak tells us, “The crime branch conducted a parallel investigation and traced the complainant’s (Faruk Kabir's) daughter, wife, and family in Amritsar. We fulfilled our duty by bringing them back to Mumbai. He had also filed a habeas corpus plea with the Bombay High Court, which instructed us to produce the child, his wife, and her family. Additionally, a complaint was lodged with the Versova Police by him, accusing the wife and her family of obtaining a travel document for the child without the father’s consent and theft. The case will be further investigated by the Versova police.”
Ganesh Pawar, Senior PI of Versova Police Station, states, “The daughter, wife, and her family are currently residing separately under our surveillance, and we have seized their travel documents. The habeas corpus plea is scheduled for a hearing before the Bombay High Court on January 16, and we will adhere to its directives.”
Angad Bedi to play cop modelled on Daya Nayak in Ekta Kapoor's crime drama, MUMBhai
8:26 AM
Mohar Basu (MID-DAY; November 8, 2019)
Ekta Kapoor is supervising the final draft of MUMBhai, a web series featuring Angad Bedi and Sikandar Kher that traces the unlikely friendship between a cop and a gangster. The show apparently takes inspiration from real-life cops and gangsters, with Bedi's character modelled on encounter specialist Daya Nayak."I have played an Army [officer] in Tiger Zinda Hai [2017] and the upcoming Kargil Girl. But playing a cop is new to me," says the actor. Turns out, Kapoor was so impressed with Bedi's performance in The Verdict: State v/s Nanavati, that she offered him the crime drama. "I will have to undergo physical preparation and technical training to understand the milieu," discusses Bedi of the show that spans a decade from the early '90s. Prod him on playing Nayak, and all he is willing to divulge is, "It's based on some valiant cops of the city, but we aren't making a biography. So, the research has to be thorough and vast because the stories have been adequately fictionalised."
Apoorva Lakhia takes war online; to produce web series for ALT Balaji
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Apoorva Lakhia continues his affair with guns and gangsters with a web series for Ekta Kapoor's platform
Upala KBR (MID-DAY; September 18, 2019)
Ever so ready to explore stories of the underworld, Shootout At Lokhandwala (2007) and Haseena Parkar (2017) director Apoorva Lakhia is set to work on another offering, MUMbhai, which revolves around gangsters and cops.Rubbishing reports of the show being inspired from encounter-specialist Daya Nayak's life, Lakhia says, "Real-life characters, especially those of gangsters and cops, have been such exploited on screen that they're now boring. We have researched on various people and written a fictional piece set against the backdrop of the '90s and 2000s. Our show is based on the friendship between a cop and a gangster. With the reality of a decade — one when encounter cops came into existence and gangsters became superstars — being dramatic, the script is evidently interesting."
Angad Bedi and Sikander Kher slip into the role of a cop and gangster respectively. The Alt Balaji offering, which will be helmed by Akshay Chaubey, kicks off next month in Mumbai.
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