Encounter Latif team in lock-up
RPF arrest crew members of film based on the life of slain gangster Abdul Latif for shooting fight scenes at Kankaria railway yard and Kalupur overbridge without permission
Yogesh Avasthi, Zahid Qureshi
Posted On Friday, December 23, 2011 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/20111223201112230255114548b0d4318/Encounter-Latif-team-in-lockup.html)
The story of the film promises to be explosive. After all, it is based on the life of Abdul Latif, Ahmedabad’s original gang leader who was shot dead in an encounter. What the film director had not bargained for was some real cops on the sets and some real arrests.
Midnight drama unfolded on the sets of Encounter Latif when Railway Protection Police swooped down upon the hotel where it was being shot and arrested an actor and two members of the crew on charge of shooting a part of the film on railway premises without authorisation. The director, too, was detained.
The team was charged with attempt to run their vehicle over two cops, preventing them from discharging their duty and creating public nuisance, said RPF-Kankaria Sub-inspector Sunil Yadav.
The drama had actually begun a few hours earlier when around 5.30 pm RPF head constable Lal Singh and constable Bardu Ram tried to stop the crew from shooting the film at Kankaria yard. The film members not only brushed them aside, but tried to run them over when the cops attempted to detain them on the railway premises until reinforcements arrived, said Yadav.
Those arrested included actor Shagun Sharma who is playing a superintendent of police in the film and two make-up artists — Zubair Syed, 27, and Imtiaz Siddiqui, 28. While Syed is from Rajkot, Siddiqui is from Mumbai.
Singh and Ram were alert enough to note down the registration numbers of the film units’ vehicles. The RPF team traced the unit to a hotel in Lal Darwaja late at night. However, most of the crew members had left the sets by the time they reached there and the police found only Sharma, Syed and Siddiqui who were arrested.
They also detained the director of the film Sharique Minhaj later in the night.
Incidentally, Hamid Khan, the son of city MLA Farooq Shaikh is playing the a lead role in the film which is based on the life of Abdul Latif who at one point of time was a close associate of India’s most wanted fugitive wanted Dawood Ibrahim. The film has references to him as well as Sohrabuddin Shaikh’s fake encounter.
Sohrabuddin used to work for Latif and formed his own gang after the latter was arrested.
Yogesh Avasthi, Zahid Qureshi
Posted On Friday, December 23, 2011 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/20111223201112230255114548b0d4318/Encounter-Latif-team-in-lockup.html)
The story of the film promises to be explosive. After all, it is based on the life of Abdul Latif, Ahmedabad’s original gang leader who was shot dead in an encounter. What the film director had not bargained for was some real cops on the sets and some real arrests.
Midnight drama unfolded on the sets of Encounter Latif when Railway Protection Police swooped down upon the hotel where it was being shot and arrested an actor and two members of the crew on charge of shooting a part of the film on railway premises without authorisation. The director, too, was detained.
The team was charged with attempt to run their vehicle over two cops, preventing them from discharging their duty and creating public nuisance, said RPF-Kankaria Sub-inspector Sunil Yadav.
The drama had actually begun a few hours earlier when around 5.30 pm RPF head constable Lal Singh and constable Bardu Ram tried to stop the crew from shooting the film at Kankaria yard. The film members not only brushed them aside, but tried to run them over when the cops attempted to detain them on the railway premises until reinforcements arrived, said Yadav.
Those arrested included actor Shagun Sharma who is playing a superintendent of police in the film and two make-up artists — Zubair Syed, 27, and Imtiaz Siddiqui, 28. While Syed is from Rajkot, Siddiqui is from Mumbai.
Singh and Ram were alert enough to note down the registration numbers of the film units’ vehicles. The RPF team traced the unit to a hotel in Lal Darwaja late at night. However, most of the crew members had left the sets by the time they reached there and the police found only Sharma, Syed and Siddiqui who were arrested.
They also detained the director of the film Sharique Minhaj later in the night.
Incidentally, Hamid Khan, the son of city MLA Farooq Shaikh is playing the a lead role in the film which is based on the life of Abdul Latif who at one point of time was a close associate of India’s most wanted fugitive wanted Dawood Ibrahim. The film has references to him as well as Sohrabuddin Shaikh’s fake encounter.
Sohrabuddin used to work for Latif and formed his own gang after the latter was arrested.
