Mastan: Mumbai Ka Midas
About this ebook
मस्तान के बारे में खूब भ्रांतियां हैं, कई किंवदंतियां और कहावतें हैं लेकिन कमाल यह कि उस पर आज तक, एक भी किताब, किसी भाषा में नहीं आई! वो भी तब, जब उसके दोस्तों में दर्जनों पत्रकार थे।
हाजी मस्तान सीधा-साधा किरदार नहीं है। उसमें कई रंग है, उसके कई चेहरे हैं, इन चेहरों पर कई-कई नकाब हैं, उसकी कई जिंदगियां है; एक सीधी लकीर की मानिंद मस्तान का किरदार खींचना संभव नहीं। किसी के लिए वह अपराधी है, किसी के लिए फरिश्ता, किसी के लिए दोस्त है, किसी के लिए दुश्मन, किसी के लिए बेहतरीन खबर, किसी के लिए मददगार, किसी का रहनुमा, किसी का पथप्रदर्शक, किसी के लिए जलन का बायस, तो किसी के लिए फर्श से अर्श तक पहुंचने का करिश्माई व्यक्तित्व और सफलता की कहानी है।
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A name that once dominated Mumbai’s underworld—a figure so enigmatic that dozens of films have been inspired by his life, countless newspapers and magazines have chronicled his deeds, and news channels have dedicated hours to unraveling his legend. For decades, he was the epicenter of public fascination, debated from the streets to the corridors of power. A man of unparalleled intrigue—Haji Mastan Mirza, the greatest gold smuggler India has ever known.
Mastan’s life is shrouded in myths, riddled with folklore and contradictions. Strangely, despite his vast network of journalist friends, not a single book— in any language—has ever been written about him. Yet, Mastan is no simple character; he is a chameleon, a master of many disguises, a man with countless lives. His identity cannot be traced in a straight line—it twists and turns, revealing layers of contradictions. To some, he is a criminal; to others, an angel. To some, a friend; to others, a sworn enemy. To journalists, he was a headline; to the needy, a savior; to rivals, an enigma; to aspirants, an icon of rags-to-riches success.
About the author
VIVEK AGRAWAL, a journalist with 3 decades of vast experience in the field of crime, defense, legal & terrorism in all the dimensions of media. Since 1985, he actively started writing as a freelancer for the local, state & national newspapers and earned good name in the united Madhya Pradesh.
His career in the mainstream newspapers started in 1992 with Hindi tabloid ‘Hamara Mahanagar’ at Mumbai. In 1993, joined Hindi national newspaper ‘Jansatta’ as a crime reporter. He broke many big time stories in both the newspapers.
His broadcast media journalism days started with India’s First Views Channel ‘Janmat’ (Live India) as Bureau Head, Maharashtra-Goa. He was part of the team of channel ‘Mi Mrathi’. Then joined ‘India TV’ as an investigative journalist.
Vivek Agrawal joined as State Head with ‘News Express’. He cracked many stories of Mumbai Mafia, Terrorism, Financial Crimes and Homeland Security all these days.
He is now focusing on writing and documentary projects, consulting print and electronic media houses to establish & run news businesses with right directions and high esteem.
He is offering his services as a news broadcast channel / newspaper / magazine setup professional to news assessment editor to various new establishments across the nation.
26 books on true crime and other serious subjects written by Vivek. He is the country’s first and only researcher-true crime writer in Hindi language.
His books ‘Mumbhai‘ and ‘Mumbhai Returns‘ created quite a stir in the publishing industry and content field. The book ‘Mumbhai’ won the Maharashtra State Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award 2018 in Journalism Catagory. In the same year ‘Mumbhai’ stood #1 in the non-fiction category in the Jagran-Nielsen survey.
The novel Dattatraya Lodge stood 2nd in the Maharashtra Sahitya Academy, Jainendra Kumar Award 2021-22 in the Novel category.
His one of the bestselling book Bombay Bar translated into Punjabi.
He was Chief Content Coordinator for Documentary Money Mafia Season 3 on Discovery Plus.
He is into creative writing for the Films, TV Shows and Web Series. Scripted 2 films, many short films, TV Shows.
Many Film, Web Series, TV+, TV Shows and Podcast projects are underway based on his books or concepts. Not only Crime, Mafia, Terrorism, Mysteries, Social Crimes, Economic Crimes but Social & Entertaining subjects are also procured by studios / production houses.
Unique and startling concepts and stories for the entertainment shows are his strength.
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