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The Hindi film industry of the 1990s, often romanticised for its music and masala blockbusters, had a far darker reality behind the camera. According to former Mumbai Police Commissioner D Sivanandhan , Bollywood was then under the complete control of the underworld, with dons like Dawood Ibrahim and Abu Salem dictating everything from funding to casting.

Speaking to ANI, Sivanandhan said that several well-known films of the decade — including Satya, Company, Daddy, Shootout at Lokhandwala and Shootout at Wadala — were allegedly “funded and financed" by the mafia. “These films were made to lift the image of the gangsters. They were all funded and financed by them only," he said.

He added that even older cult classics like Deewaar and Muqaddar

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