What punishment did the person who Anurag Basu was rumored to base his movie Gangster on receive?
Gangster (2006 film) Gangster is a 2006 Indian romantic crime film that premiered on 28 April. It stars Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja. The plot is that of a bar girl who falls in love with two people, one a layman and the other a gangster. The music is composed by Pritam. The film was rumoured to be based on the life of mobster Abu Salem and former actress Monica Bedi, but the director Anurag Basu said that it is not based upon any real characters or incidents. "Gangster" was a hit at the box office. The movie is debut of actress Kangana Ranaut.
Louis Dega Louis Dega (born 1890, Marseilles, France – died 1945, French Guiana) was a prisoner in the French Guiana penitentiary of Devil's Island. He was convicted of fraud and counterfeiting and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment by France, where he became a companion of Henri Charrière (also known as "Papillon") for thirteen years. The two were first sent to a prison in Caen, France, until they embarked for South America in 1932. He had a younger brother named Joseph who tried to help Charrière escape from Barranquilla prison in Colombia. Dega and Papillon had previously met before embarking to South America, and made a deal in which Dega paid Papillon for protection. The two became best friends during their sentence.