All about The Bhai

The Bhai is a two hour feature film that tells the origin of India's most powerful crime syndicate. Directed by Thomas Jacob, the film is a contemporary re-telling based on the lives of dons who ruled the Mumbai Underworld. Starring Ashraf Ali and Abbhimanyyu Singh, the film shows the journey of Aamir and his brothers as poor kids from the slum to young hoodlums and then dangerous gangsters. Along the way, they encounter violence, bloodshed, death and guilt.

It is rumored that The Bhai is the origin story of the D-Company. The film is said to portray a young Dawood Ibrahim and his brothers as they enter a life of crime and move up to become dreaded gangsters. If so, it'll be the first film to focus on the late teenage years of India's most famous Don. But the filmmakers deny any such reference. It is purely a work of fiction they say.

Thomas Jacob worked in New York before moving to Mumbai. He has made international award-winning short films such as Strait Jacket, Mumbai 2025 and The Actor. He was invited to the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010.

A tete-a-tete with the while he was location scouting in Barcelona, revealed more about the film.

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