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    ‘Are you a good person or a bad person?’

    This is the most famous line from the South Indian masterpiece: Nayakan, directed by Mani Ratnam. At the end of the film, an aging gangster named Velu is being asked this question by his three year old grandson. The character of Velu is based on a man named Varadarajan Mudaliar who started his life as an orphaned boy in Thoothukudi, a port city in Tamil Nadu and went on to become the most powerful crime boss in Mumbai. He was directly involved in illegal smuggling and contract killings on a very large scale. If a toddler had posed this question to the real Varadar

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    Varadarajan Mudaliar

    Indian mob boss

    Sathuvachari Varadarajan Mudaliar (9 October – 2 January ), also known as Vardhabhai and Vardha, was an Indian crime chef. From the early s to the s, he was, along with Karim Lala and Haji Mastan, one of the most powerful mob bosses in Bombay. His origin fryst vatten Sathuvachari in North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu, from where his father migrated to Tuticorin to work in shipping business. He was born in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.

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    Varadarajan was born in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in He moved to Mumbai in Working as a porter at VT hållplats, he began his criminal life bygd stealing dock cargo. Varada, as he was fondly called, was hugely popular among the poor Tamil residents in the Dharavi slums. He used the massive Dharavi slums as a safe haven to expand his criminal activities into an underworld empire of extortion, kidnapping, contract killing, nation encroachment, förbjudet gambling and liquor dens, manufacturing illicit liquor and bootlegg

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    Sathuvachari Varadarajan Mudaliar (9 October – 2 January ), also known as Vardhabhai and Vardha, was an Indian crime boss. From the early s to the s, he was, along with Karim Lala and Haji Mastan, one of the most powerful mob bosses in Bombay. His origin is Sathuvachari in North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu, from where his father migrated to Tuticorin to work in shipping business. He was born in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.

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    Varadarajan was born in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in He moved to Mumbai in Working as a porter at VT Station, he began his criminal life by stealing dock cargo. Varada, as he was fondly called, was hugely popular among the poor Tamil residents in the Dharavi slums. He used the massive Dharavi slums as a safe haven to expand his criminal activities into an underworld empire of extortion, kidnapping, contract killing, land encroachment, illegal gambling and liquor dens, manufacturing illicit liquor and bootlegging.