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India’s leading film producer, Bharat Shah, was convicted this week of concealing information on the Indian mafia. The mogul was arrested back in 2001 as part of a sweeping investigation into the links between the notoriously corrupt Indian film industry, known as Bollywood, and criminal gangs. Prosecutors said that Shah had had conversations with an underworld don about the financing of the film Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke, which he failed to report to the police. Other Bollywood figures said Shah could not have been expected to risk his life by tattling on the mafia. “There’s hardly anybody in the film industry who has not been contacted by the mafia,” said filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. “Who can dare refuse to take a call from the underworld?”
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