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Author Zaidi and Jane Borges have taken pain staking effort to research the background of these notorious mafia queens. No one can ever imagine that even women can dare to rule a crime empire. The foreword by Director Vishal Bharadwaj on this book intensifies the interest to turn the pages. It is a highly recommended book for the readers who love crime genre. If Mumbai is a business hub for corporate honchos, it is also a dark lane where these unknown Mafia queens rule from their secret dens.
Zaidi has been always an able chronicler of crime but this book promises to be a compelling take on a life of crime as lived by these women and the ways in which they ran their respective empires with shattering brutality. Your review, Prashant, is a very intriguing one and I love how you have focused on the stories told and even elaborated them in your own lucid and concise style. This kind of inside information itself makes me compelled to read this book right away.
Hi zoeb, thanks for your encouraging comment. I wanted to add more sub plots in the article, but I was in no intention to make it sensational, a crime glorifying content. I toned down the content and made it a best reference book in crime genre. The story of moll has been included in this crime thriller. Every crime queen is unique in her role. A highly recommended read in non fiction.
For aficionados of the crime genre, reading stories based on reality can be addictive in a way that watching horror movies based on real life incidents can be for those who plight their troth with the horror genre. What could mar the experience, however, is if the narrative becomes a mere dry recounting of events without the drama necessary to hook the reader. Thankfully, Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands does not fall in that category.
Crisp and smooth enough to keep the pages turning, this account of women in the Mumbai mafia is written in a style that is dramatised and keeps the interest unflagging. Written by veteran crime reporter S Hussain Zaidi (this is his second book, the first being Black Friday) along with Jane Borges, the stories are all based on fact, and the research that has gone into the writing is evident in the amount of detail that passes casually in the course of the narrative. The book has been pieced together painstakingly through anecdotes, documentary evidence, official case papers and conversations with family and acquaintances of the Mafia Queens. The result is a pacy thriller, a compendium of many stories, each replete with drama, action and intrigue.
Of all the stories, the most inspiring and intriguing perhaps, is the first one, that of Jenabai Gandhi alias Daruwali. From a freedom fighter under the British Rule, to a bootlegger and a woman of such clout that mafia dons like Dawood Ibrahim and Haji Mastan turned to her for advice and protection, Jenabai was an intriguing character. It was thanks to her efforts that Dawood, Haji Mastan and the Pathan gang brigade came together as one force. The first among the 13 stories of the Mafia queens of Mumbai is the stuff gangster films are made of. Another story talks about a burkha clad woman, who learns to shoot and spends her life trying to avenge the murder of her husband.
Another interesting story is that of Gangubai Kathewali, who ruled Kamathipura, a far call from the young woman who was lured and betrayed into prostitution herself. Among the stories is that of Neeta Naik, the wife of Ashwin Naik, the noted underworld gangster who was paralysed after a shooting, and then compelled to move out of the country to escape imprisonment and being exterminated by his enemies. Almost a film script in its twists and turns, the life of Neeta Naik is the stuff that makes one believe that life is stranger than fiction. Educated at Sophia College, Naik was a Shiv Sena corporator by day and a gang leader by night, on first name terms with all the gangland sharp shooters and a controller of the finances of the Dadar vegetable market. She was shot dead, apparently under orders from her husband, because of an extramarital affair.
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