The persona of the female don pops up every once in a while as a diversion, but full-fledged Bollywood films revolving around such characters are rare.
In 1999, there was Shabana Azmi’s ‘Godmother’. And now comes ‘Haseena Parkar’, which has Shraddha Kapoor play the part of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister, a woman who started off as a wife and mother, and who grew into becoming a fearsome entity, flouting the law with impunity, deriving her power from her Bhai-in-Dubai.
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