Shashilal Nair's Angaar was allegedly based on the life of Amar Naik, whose father Maruti was a vegetable vendor at Dadar. Amar Naik allegedly took the violent road after his father was brutally beaten by goons seeking extortion money.Based on Naik's brother Ashwin was Anil Kapoor's role in Parinda, about how a criminal's brother is drawn into crime. Ashwin and his wife Neeta were shot at while returning from the airport. They both survived, but sent Ashwin Naik irrevocably down the road to crime. Allegedly in the interests of preserving authenticity of depicting the character, Anil Kapoor once met Dawood Ibrahim. When pictures of him with gangland leader found its way into a magazine, the officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation came calling.Kapoor admitted he had met Ibrahim, and said the man was more upset that the star had also met a member of a rival gang in Bombay."I told him that I was playing the role of a henchman in Mahesh Bhatt's Awargi and I had to pick up a few tips," said Kapoor later. Satisfied, Ibrahim told him he had been a fan of Kapoor ever since he saw Mashaal.

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