According to reports, when Shiney was bundled into Arthur Road jail late on Thursday evening, other prisoners in the barrack pounced on him and started bugging him till dreaded gangster Mustafa Dossa came to former’s rescue.
Inside reports suggest that Dossa ordered the inmates troubling Shiney to leave him and after the crowd dispersed, he tried his best to make Shiney feel at home.
It is believed that Shiney was shifted to Dossa`s cell on Friday morning. Dossa, said a jail source, gave Shiney soap, paste and shampoo. “He also arranged for a fresh pair of clothes for the actor,” added the source.
In a strange convergence of art and life, actor Shiney Ahuja, whose character in the 2006 film 'Gangster' is said to be based on Abu Salem, will serve a 14-day stint in judicial custody at Arthur Road jail, where Salem himself is awaiting trial. Ahuja is accused of raping his domestic help.
Salem — like Ahuja now — has been at this jail since his extradition from Portugal in 2005, and is awaiting court verdicts in two cases of murder and for his alleged role in the 1993 serial blasts. He is currently housed in barrack number 10 of the jail, along with two other accused in the 1993 blasts case and scores of other prisoners.
Salem is likely well aware of Ahuja's filmography. In 2006, when 'Gangster' was to be released, Salem's lawyers had rushed to court, complaining that the film was based on events in Salem's life and that screening be stopped. In the film, Ahuja portrayed a lovelorn gangster evading law enforcement agencies by escaping overseas. Director Mahesh Bhatt had vehemently denied he had drawn upon Salem's alleged life of crime or his romance with Bollywood beauty Monica Bedi, but not many were convinced. Salem's advocates eventually withdrew their objections and 'Gangster' opened to packed houses.
Shiney had played a dreaded gangster Daya Shankar madly in love with Kangana Ranaut in the movie. This plot was strikingly similar to Salem's affair with Bollywood actress Monica Bedi with whom he was arrested in Portugal. Well it is very much likely that 'Real Gangster' and the 'Reel Gangster' will come across each other in the next 14 days.
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