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Apr 9, 2015 · Haji Mastan's rise was phenomenal but he was imprisoned during the Indian Emergency (1975 - 77). Surprisingly when he was released after 18 months from jail he emerged as a hero and was a reformed ...
Haji Mastan had four children with Shahjehan Begum: a daughter Shamshad Supariwala, and three sons Nadir Nasir and Akhtar Mirza. He also had an adopted son, Sundar Shaekhar, who was a Hindu by birth. Haji Mastan died of cancer, on May 9, 1994, at the age of 68..
As a teenager, Haji Mastan worked odd jobs at a dock on the coast, which is where he was exposed to his first taste of illegal activities. He was a poor boy from the South Coast of India. In the late 1940s, India had imposed a high import duty on gold, leading to a rise of smuggling of gold from overseas.2 Black market activity increases as a ...
Jul 23, 2010 · Haji Mastan was born Mastan Haider Mirza on March 1, 1926 in Panaikulam village near Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. His father, an impoverished farmer, migrated to Mumbai with Mastan in 1934. They ran a ...
Jul 29, 2010 · The man we grew up to know as Haji Mastan. In the early 70s, dons like Haji Mastan ruled the roost with the pure intent of making money. It was a profitable era devoid of supari killings, gang ...
Nov 19, 2013 · Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST. MUMBAI: Contrary to general belief, Haji Mastan Mirza was never an underworld don or even a goon for that matter. He was a smuggler and a shrewd man who rubbed shoulders with the high and mighty of his era. Be it Karim Lala or Vardabhai, Dilip Kumar or Shashi Kapoor, he had friends from the world of politics.
Jul 8, 2020 · Haji Mastan. Born in 1926 to a Muslim family in Panaikulam, Tamil Nadu, Mastan, reportedly, migrated to Bombay at the age of eight, before going on to develop an underworld empire and rule the roost for two decades between 1960 and 1980, with the help of Karim Lala and Varadarajan Mulaidar.
