Muthappa rai autobiography in five short
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My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia
Book by Agni Shreedhar
My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia is an autobiographical book written by Agni Sreedhar. Before becoming a writer, film maker and journalist he was an underworld don. He wanted to enter the Indian Administrative Service after studying for law. Circumstances (when his brother was beaten up by an underworld man), which he narrates in his novel, made him an underworld don for 20 years in Bangalore (now Bengaluru).
In this book he tells of his own experiences and encounters in the crime world of Bangalore, which runs on a track that never coalesces with the chaotic world of the common people governed by a distorted justice system. Initially, Sreedhar wrote a series of articles under the title Dadagiriya Dinagalu in Kannada language for his tabloidAgni, which he later translated into English under the title My Days in the Underworld-Rise of Bangalore Mafia with the help of Pr
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Muthappa Rai Biopic: Guess who's playing the late underworld don?
These announcements have indeed caused the excitement to soar to a new height and fans are now eager to learn who the lead actor in the film would be. In the past, the biopic was imagined with actors Sudeepand Vivek Oberoi (on separate occasions) but both projects failed to take any shape. Considering the magnitude of the project and the opportunity it offers to any acto
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Bengaluru’s ‘godfather’ Muthappa Rai dies of brain cancer
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“After a prolonged illness and hospitalisation, we regret to inform the demise of year-old Mr Muthappa Rai&#; Manipal Hospitals expresses condolence to his entire family,” said a statement from the hospital where the former underworld boss died.
It was never quite klar whether Rai, who donned the garb of a real estate businessman with interests in hotels and nightclubs, had really exited the brott world. Despite the clean record after his acquittals and the nurturing of a benevolent image of a man more interested in the good things in life — horse racing, gambling, protection of local language and culture (like the Kambala boskap races)— there remained constant whispers of the presence of “MR”, as he was known among his associates, in real estate deals.
At the final rites conducted for Rai at his est