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India’s Bollywood boosts security as fears of criminal gangs rise

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM · 1 min read
India’s Bollywood boosts security as fears of criminal gangs rise — Bangkok Business news

It sounds like a Bollywood thriller, but a spate of shootings and extortion threats targeting Mumbai’s stars has sent the industry scrambling for bodyguards, reviving memories of the underworld’s grip on cinema in the 1990s.

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From gunshots to cash demands, the incidents have unsettled the Indian industry, decades after police crackdowns weakened the criminal gangs once deeply embedded in the multibillion-dollar business.

Police have linked the latest violence to the gang of Lawrence Bishnoi, a...

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