Controversial film producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi whose hit film “Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke” (2001) blew the lid off the Bollywood-Mafia nexus passed away at a private hospital here, industry sources said on Tuesday.
Admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) for certain undisclosed ailments, Rizvi breathed his last while under treatment late on Monday.
Said to be in his early 70s, his mortal remains are being taken to his native place in Uttar Pradesh for the funeral.
Also Read: Akshay kumar’s walk on India’s map raises the hackles of Netizens
Rizvi had also produced other inferior films such as “Majboor Ladki” (1991), “Apaatkal” (1993), “Angarvaadi” (1998), “Undertrial” (2007), “Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke” (2001), “Hello, Hum Lallan Bol Rahe Hain” (2010), “Qasam Se, Qasam Se”, (2011), and “Laden Aala Re Aala” (2017).
However, he is widely known for the musical hit “Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke” starring the top trio of that time — Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, and Preity Zinta — which discussed the topic of surrogate motherhood for the first time on the silver screen.
Nevertheless, the film, which shot him into the big league, also made news for other unsavory reasons. Shortly before its release, Rizvi and another financer Bharat Shah were arrested in December 2000 for allegedly diverting tainted underworld-linked money for the movie production.
The stunning expose was made by a crack team of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch comprising former encounter specialists’ who had shadowed Rizvi, and his associates, and investigated the case in depth before finally swooping on them.
The Mumbai Police had charged the Rizvi-Shah duo with allegedly receiving funds from the Mumbai mafia, specifically from Shakeel Babumiyan Shaikh – dreaded as Chhota Shakeel – and a close aide of the absconder underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar.
(This story has been sourced from a third-party syndicated feed, agencies. Raavi Media accepts no responsibility or liability for the dependability, trustworthiness, reliability, and data of the text. Raavi Media management/ythisnews.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content at its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever.)
