I don't read a lot of books about gangsters, but the ones that I have, all revolve around male gangsters.

But, there were women who ruled the roost there too, women who remained in the background and pulled the strings, women who acted as mentors and advisers to the famous dons, women who were wives of the dons and then took over when their husbands were killed, women who assumed leadership to try and bring down rival leaders who had harmed their family. Padma Pujari wife of Ravi Pujari, a close aid of Chhota Rajan, she too was indulged in extortion with her husband. One can refuse to look at these stories with sensitivity but if we were to look at another aspect of their existence and understand how meager it was, one would realize that they had no other way but to fight it out with life. The stories have good potential, but in the effort to add dramatic flare to these stories, he reduces these women to this femme fatale characters, that is just disappointing. Initially, she started selling rice to feed the family, which soon turned into the smuggling of ration.

The former has allegedly shielded her husband against the police machinery and fake encounters multiple times. After reading through this book, holding in mind 'From Dongri to Dubai', my preference would be for this book.

One the reasons for my favorable opinion toward the book is the down-to-earth and yet compelling narrative. Born on February 28, 1962, in Mumbai, India, Zaidi has left an indelible mark on the literary and cinematic landscapes of India, particularly in the realm of crime and the Mumbai underworld.I am not stopping yet as this book has made my mind inclined towards reading crime stories and I am going to pick more of his book. It also appears from their stories that once they chose that path, there was absolutely no turning back. She loved her husband so much that she decided to kill Dawood and for this went through extensive training of arms and weapons, but she came to dreadful and brutal end.