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Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Ludhiana: Property of peddler worth ₹24 lakh seized
Continuing their crackdown on drug peddling, the Jamalpur police have seized property worth ₹24.37 lakh belonging to an alleged drug smuggler. The accused has been identified as Nitin Pahwa alias Bunty, a resident of Laxmi Nagar in Haibowal Kalan. According to inspector Balwinder Kaur, station house officer of Jamalpur police station, a case under Sections 21, 61, and 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against Pahwa on November 14, 2017. During the investigation, it was found that he had used proceeds from drug trafficking to purchase property valued at ₹24.37 lakh.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Time of India
Missing man's body found in canal, ASI arrested for murder
Ludhiana: A 42-year-old man who went missing on April 16 was allegedly killed by a gunshot fired by assistant sub inspector (ASI) Bua Singh. Moti Nagar police arrested the ASI, posted in Kailash Nagar police post, and lodged an FIR against him and his aides on charges of murder. It is alleged that after killing the man, the accused dumped his body inside a canal in Ropar. The body of the deceased, Gurjinder Singh alias Gora, 43, a resident of MIG Colony, Jamalpur Awana, was found by Morinda police. However, they could not identify the deceased and cremated the body. Initially, Moti Nagar police lodged an FIR under sections 127 (6) (wrongful confinement) of BNS against unidentified accused on the complaint of Gurjinder's mother, Ranjeet Kaur. Now, police have added sections of murder, criminal conspiracy, and Arms Act in the FIR and booked ASI Bua Singh, Bunty, and Gagan. Jeevan Kumar, a friend of the deceased, said, "Gurjinder would often consume alcohol with his friend Bunty, who lives in the same locality. At times, he was seen consuming alcohol with the ASI also. On April 16, Bunty took him from his house, after which Gurjinder never returned. A missing complaint was filed with the police." He added, "For the past one and a half months, neither the family nor police could track Gurjinder. Meanwhile, we came to know through some common friends of Bunty and Gurjinder that Gurjinder was shot dead at Bunty's house on April 16, and the ASI's weapon was used in the crime. We alerted the police." Jeevan said that they suspected ASI Bua Singh of shooting Gurjinder dead after an altercation while drinking with him, Bunty, and Gagan at Bunty's house. Inspector Amritpal Singh, SHO, Moti Nagar police station, said that police had added murder section in the FIR on the basis of the statements of the mother of the deceased. Police are verifying if it was accidental or an intentional fire. The ASI has been arrested and the other accused are being tracked. The arrested accused was produced in court and remanded in three-day police custody. Forensic examination of the ASI's car was also done. MSID:: 121494045 413 |
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First Post
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- First Post
Not Abhishek Bachchan but Hrithik Roshan 'was the first choice for Bunty Aur Babli' reveals director Shaad Ali: 'He was not very comfortable going into the...'
Director Shaad Ali revealed that Hrithik Roshan was the first choice as Bunty and even the actor's father and filmmaker Rakesh Roshan was keen for HR to do this role read more Bunty Aur Babli featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerjee, yesterday celebrated 20 years of release. While the crackling chemistry between the lead pair, along with their performances and music album, garnered praise from the audience, Abhishek Bachchan was not the first choice for the movie. Director Shaad Ali revealed that Hrithik Roshan was the first choice as Bunty and even the actor's father and filmmaker Rakesh Roshan was keen for HR to do this role. However, the Fighter star was not keen to show himself as a small-town boy. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Hrithik 'was our first choice,' said Shaad while talking to Bollywood Hungama. 'We sat for a few months with him. Rakesh ji (Rakesh Roshan) liked the script a lot and he was keen that Hrithik should sign the film. But Hrithik was not very comfortable going into the small town zone at that time.' Shaad shared, adding Hrithik had 'reservations' about the same. The filmmaker revealed that despite he didn't do the movie, Hrithik contributed significantly to Bunty Aur Babli. 'He did have a lot of ideas for the film. In fact, it was Hrithik's idea that Bunty and Babli should return to conning in the last scene. He reasoned, 'They are like Superman! They can't go back to their lives and not return ever in the con world.' In the original idea, the story ended once Bunty and Babli were let off and they become law-abiding citizens. I should have thanked Hrithik in the credits,' shared Ali. The crime comedy also featured Amitabh Bachchan, Raj Babbar, Puneet Issar, Kiran Juneja and Pankaj Tripathi among others in supporting roles. On the other hand, Hrithik Roshan is gearing up for the release of War 2, which is scheduled to hit the screens on 14th August. The movie also features Jr NTR and Kiara Advani in prominent roles. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD
Indian Express
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Bunty Aur Babli turns 20: Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji's crime caper is a sharp, spirited portrait of middle-class ambition in post-liberalisation India
It was the early 2000s. Aditya Chopra had seen failure, and not just once; the industry had started to lose faith as well as some within his own family. He was no longer the golden boy, and that silence around him was growing heavier. Hence, he made a decision. Not to retreat, but to move and to try something unexpected. He wanted to make a crime caper, with Abhishek Bachchan in the lead. He handed the reins to a young director, known only for a remake, and gave him a story that set out to change the syntax of commercial storytelling. For Yash Raj Films, this was unfamiliar territory. It had none of the soft-focus charm of their romantic sagas. There was no moral compass pointing north. Not even NRI nostalgia to cushion the fall. At its heart, it was about thieves, beneath the ever-watchful eye of capitalism's glimmering tower, stealing not for malice, but for meaning. Many might think this is about Dhoom, with its bikes, its pace, its swagger. That's another story for another day. This is about something else. Something gentler, but sharper. This is about Bunty Aur Babli. On paper, the film read like a loose riff on Bonnie and Clyde, but the comparison falls apart on contact. The conflict, the characters, even the tonal register, everything diverges. There's a deliberate lightness here, a sense of joy that's not accidental. What distinguishes it, though, is its grounding in a newly liberalized Indian economy. What resonates most is the social and generational context from which Bunty and Babli emerge. They're children of a transitional India, where aspiration outpaces infrastructure, where dreams travel faster than opportunity. Their world is shaped by cable television, their life is defined by endless stories of success featuring people like them, but never quite about them. They come from the moral certainties of the middle class, yet no longer find themselves entirely at home in them. So unlike Bonnie and Clyde, their rebellion isn't just romantic or criminal — it's existential. They're not simply running from the law; they're running towards meaning, place, and identity. Bunty (Abhishek Bachchan) comes from Fursatganj. Babli (Rani Mukerji) runs away from Pankinagar. Towns like these don't figure in the imagination of India A. They are not destinations, just glimpses from a moving train, places you pass through on your way elsewhere. The kind of small towns, which Gulzar described as 'chhote chhote shehron se', towns that appear as two-minute railway halts, or as dhaba stops on long, anonymous highways. It's no accident, then, that the film is filled with trains and roads. They're more than just setting, they're the spirit. Movement becomes metaphor. The story sways towards the form of a road movie, but what it really tracks is the velocity of desire, the shape of a search. Bunty and Babli's journey begins with the pulse of 'Dhadak Dhadak', introduced separately (notice Babli, dancing in an akhada, subverting every expectation of the YRF heroine). By the interval, they're together, dancing to 'Nach Baliye', on a set that feels like Broadway filtered through Mumbai, brought alive by Sharmishta Roy. It's more than a spectacle, it's a declaration. They've arrived. Not by permission, but by defiance. Because for towns like Fursatganj and Pankinagar, the law does not build ladders. It builds maps that forget them. Also Read | Bunty Aur Babli 2 review: Saif Ali Khan-Rani Mukerji kindle the old spark At the interval point, another shift takes place, not just in the story, but in the film's very form. This is when Amitabh Bachchan enters as Commissioner Dashrath Singh, tasked with hunting down Bunty and Babli. And with his arrival, something changes. Until now, the film had moved along the undercurrent of contrast, between different Indias, between aspiration and limitation, but that tension remained largely subtextual. With Bachchan's entry, the polarity becomes tonal. The first half of Bunty aur Babli is grounded. It belongs to the soil. Its language, texture, and rhythm echo the realism of Amol Palekar or Basu Chatterjee movies. But post-interval, the film shapeshifts. It leaps into the zone of a Manmohan Desai caper: louder, faster, glossier. The satire gets broader, the stakes more stylized. What was once rooted starts to float. The chase becomes theatrical, the con jobs more elaborate, the narrative more self-aware. And by the end, the homages are unmistakable. This is Catch Me If You Can, filtered through a Bollywood lens, stitched with spectacle and swagger. The film wears its love for the '70s on its sleeve. Look closely, and a Hath Ki Safai poster slips into the mise-en-scène like a memory. Listen carefully, and you'll hear 'Dil Cheez Kya Hai' floating in the background, as Bachchan's voice reflects on lost love. Ranjeet plays Ranjeet. Prem Chopra appears, but not as himself. And Sholay? It haunts the form. Bunty and Babli don the jackets of Jai and Veeru, not as parody but as inheritance. And in the end, there's a moving train, a face-off between an honest cop (read: Thakur) and two outlaws. But the most pointed homage is the casting of Bachchan himself. Once the face of rebellion, the original angry young man, he now stands on the other side. No longer the drifter, no longer the spark, he is the law, the system, the state. He chases what he once embodied. The film, without ever raising its voice, offers a mirror. A deconstruction. Bachchan as Dashrath Singh isn't just a cop chasing thieves, he's really time chasing itself. He's a myth returning to watch its own unravelling. You can almost sense that director Shaad Ali is working from a place of deep fascination. His enthusiasm doesn't just sit on the surface, it feels visceral, alive in every frame. But at no point does this passion overwhelm the story. Instead, it powers it from within. His gaze is packed with ideas, and what's remarkable is how effortlessly he brings each one to life. There's also a clear and genuine love for the song-and-dance tradition of Bombay cinema. Shaad doesn't treat music as decoration, he uses it to its fullest potential. Each song becomes a narrative moment, revealing themes, emotions, even entire storylines. But the real giant here — the cultural juggernaut, is Kajra Re. It's the song that defined a decade. Shaad Ali never directed a bigger musical moment. Alisha Chinai never sang a more iconic hit. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy never produced a more crowd-moving track. And Aishwarya Rai never danced with such massy charm and controlled fire. Even Gulzar, always philosophical, hit a rare balance here between the everyday and the eternal. Just look at the lines: 'Surmein se likhe tere waade, aankhon ki zubaani aate hain': a love promise written not in ink but in gaze. Or 'Aankhein bhi kamaal karti hain, personal se sawaal karti hain': as if eyes alone could interrogate intimacy. These are the kinds of lines you might find scribbled on the back of a truck, but in Gulzar's hands, they take on something almost existential. Speaking of memorable lines, you simply can't talk about Bunty Aur Babli without bringing up Jaideep Sahni's writing. As always, he returns to the themes he knows best: middle-class morality, amidst the changing fabric of post-liberalised India. And yet, even within this familiar terrain, he manages to craft a story that feels both fresh and utterly relatable. You could easily go on at length about Sahni's sharp writing. But often, just one scene, or even a single moment, a single line, is enough to reveal the depth of his craft. Take the wildly audacious moment when Bunty and Babli con a foreigner by 'selling' the Taj Mahal. Just moments earlier, a corrupt minister is confronted by a furious crowd chanting, 'Tanashahi nahi chalegi!' She snaps back, 'Arey kiski?' And the crowd replies — 'Kisi ki bhi.' That's it. That's Sahni for you. His writing doesn't shout, it slices. With one line, he can expose an entire system. With one exchange, he can turn satire into truth.
Time of India
27-04-2025
- Time of India
Hiranwar Gang Had Plotted Attack During Rally On Ambedkar Jayanti
Nagpur: The city police's crime branch revealed on Sunday that the Hiranwar gang had planned to open fire on an Ambedkar Jayanti procession on April 14 to eliminate their arch-rival Sheikhu Khan's close aide, Pravesh Gupta. However, their plan failed. The kingpin, Bunty Hiranwar , along with his sharpshooters, waited at Ram Nagar Chowk to attack the rally coming from Pandhrabodhi. Netted 11 days after the murder of café owner Avinash Bhusari on April 15, Bunty Hiranwar made the 'mistake' of inserting a new SIM in an old handset which provided the police with crucial information about their movements on the train from Chanda Fort to Gondia via Navegaon. He was caught with his cousin Babu, alias Ankit Hiranwar. "Meshram was using his cellphone and trying to contact others through messengers and Instagram, which revealed his location at Dongargarh in Chhattisgarh. Cyber cell experts managed to identify his cell number operating from a dharmashala near a famous shrine. He was caught along with Walke," said DCP Maknikar at a press conference at the crime branch on Sunday. "The entire operation was monitored by CP Ravinder Singal," he added. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo DCP Maknikar, whose team, led by senior inspector Mahesh Sagade, nabbed the five Hiranwar gang members, including Bunty, with the help of Gondia police, stated that the gangsters wanted to target the Ambedkar Jayanti rally to kill Gupta, but the target remained elusive. "If the Hiranwars had spotted Gupta in the rally, they would have shot at him indiscriminately, leading to collateral damage with deep repercussions. After missing Gupta, the Hiranwars decided to target café owner Bhusari (deceased). An employee of Bhusari, identified as Abu, leaked information to the Hiranwars that the victim once revealed to him that Bunty's cousin Pawan (killed in a gang war in January) would soon be eliminated. This made him one of the targets, apart from Gupta and Dheeraj Bamburde," said Maknikar, adding that Bunty claimed before the police, 'agar main nahi marta toh mujhe woh log marr dalte' (If I did not kill Bhusari, then the Sheikhu gang would have bumped me off). While Bunty and Babu were nabbed from Navegaon after a chase, Walke and Meshram were nabbed from Dongargarh, and Yadav was netted at Gondia by the teams of assistant inspectors Gajanan Chambhare, Nitin Chulpar, sub-inspector Manoj Raut, and others, with the help of cyber expert PSI Vivek Zingare. Maknikar further stated that sharpshooter Shakti Yadav (Shibbu's brother), along with Monu Kalsarpe, Sahil Shendre, Rahul Bawane, and Sheikh Sahid, are now being pursued. "The killers abandoned their bikes near Bhandara railway station before boarding the train to reach Dongargarh, then returned to a relative's place of Rohit Murke. The gang later travelled to Kolkata via Durg and went to Vishakhapatnam. Some of their cellphone analysis showed that key members of the gang, Meshram and Walke, were returning to Nagpur via train. They were in Kerala Express, but it got delayed due to Gorakhpur Express. The Kerala Express stopped between Ajni and Khapri, during which Meshram and Walke jumped off and fled. They went to Futala and Indora to consume narcotics before fleeing to Dongargarh again via Bhandara. We caught them from Dongargarh," said Maknikar, adding that Bunty's uncle Dheeraj would be booked for illegal money lending, while there would be a fresh case against Babu, alias Ankit, for preparing fake Aadhaar cards for the gang. Gang member stole grandma's money to buy weapons DCP Crime Rahul Maknikar stated that Shibbu Yadav, the younger brother of sharpshooter Shakti, stole Rs 1.27 lakh from his grandmother, Kiran Hiranwar, who passed away two days ago. He handed over the cash to Bunty Hiranwar, who in turn gave it to Shaikh Shahid. "Shahid bought three mausers for their mission against the Sheikhu gang from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh at Rs 45,000 around each three months ago," said Maknikar, adding that accused Rahul Bawane brought 20 bullets for the gang. "They test-fired a few bullets too," said Maknikar. Was Simran's husband's death an accident? Simran Lokhande, arrested for helping her friend Bunty Hiranwar by transferring Rs 10,000, is now under scrutiny for the mysterious death of her husband. She got married when Bunty was in jail for four years. Her husband died after falling from the fourth floor of a building in Wadi. "Was it an accident or homicide is what we may look into in the near future," said DCP crime Maknikar, adding that he would invoke MCOCA against the gang. Simran's brother, Rishabh Wankhede, was also arrested for helping Bunty's uncle and Babu's father, Dheeraj, and his family flee Nagpur after Avinash Bhusari's murder.
