My Name is Abu Salem

01 November, 2014

S Hussain Zaidi

Penguin Books India

270 pages, Rs. 350

Mumbai has produced many dons—but perhaps none so colourful as Abu Salem. The flamboyant ex-aide of Dawood Ibrahim is well known for his involvement in the Mumbai blasts of 1993, and for the murder of the composer Gulshan Kumar. But he became equally famous for his relationship with the actress Monica Bedi, and his close connection to Bollywood. Based on first-hand accounts, this is a gripping narrative of Salem’s life from a writer intimately familiar with the Mumbai underworld.