What is the name of this self proclaimed don of Mumbai in India, recognized as the founder of the major organized criminal gang in the Mumbai area, for which Angaar was speculated to have been based on his life?
Karim Lala Karim Lala (1911 – February 19, 2002), born as Abdul Karim Sher Khan in Kunar province of Afghanistan, was self-proclaimed 'don of Mumbai' in India. He is recognized as the founder of the major organised criminal gang in the Mumbai area in the 1950's. He went to work in Mumbai’s docks in the early 1940s via Peshawar, but he rose to prominence, along with Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar. Karim Lala and his fellow Mafia leaders were based in Mumbai.
Bada Rajan Rajan Mahadev Nair (died 30 September 1983), popularly known in the Mumbai underworld by his moniker Bada Rajan (literally "Elder Rajan") was an Indian mobster and underworld don from Mumbai, who operated a gang active in Mumbai's eastern suburbs of Ghatkopar, Tilak Nagar and Chembur.