[The billionaire and former don "Muthappa Rai" is also a man of leisure. Here he drives a golf cart in front of his mansion just outside of Bangalore.]
This is part of a story I helped and shot for Wired on Bangalore's Land Mafia - it is centered around a former mob boss turned business men and politician muthappa rai.
You will find most of the details in the online version of the story - here.
Here are the other pictures
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[Two burly men carrying shotguns smile grimly as I drive past the first checkpoint to Muthappa Rai's fortified compound. I'm an hour south of Bangalore in a patchwork of fallow fields and construction sites. Rai's mansion comes into view at the top of a hill, a giant white building surrounded by a 20-foot-high concrete wall.]
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['Agni’ Sridhar, a former Bangalore don turned filmaker, editor and journalist at his house in Bangalore. His bangalore house and office is a walled complex with electic fences and 20 foot walls around it.He wrote the cult Kannada movie Aa Dinagalu which is based on his day in bangalore's Mafia.]
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[Lokesh's nickname, "Malama", means "medicine". As in if you have a problem, Lokesh is the medicine. He is a well-known rowdie who settles real estate deals with force. He has several cases, included those of murder against him. He believes he is a old school gangster and believes more using knifes and swords then guns]
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[Lawyer and associate of mid-level assosiate Muttapa Rai at his pigeon-hole office in Shivajinagar.]
THE ENTIRE SET OF PICTURES HERE
8 comments:
- Rain Girl said...
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awesome shots. but why aren't u credited for the pics on wired?
- April 29, 2009 9:12 AM
- Vatsala said...
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coolness :) You're on wired. This is awesome !
- April 29, 2009 11:46 AM
- agent green glass said...
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exactly. read the article, and realised you aint credited for the pix.
that apart, it's always fantastic to see your blog. the pictures and the write ups keep getting better. - April 29, 2009 12:12 PM
- Shilpa Bhatnagar said...
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This is utterly awesome. Keep up the great work, Akshay:)
- April 29, 2009 1:42 PM
- Vertino Aleci said...
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wow this is pretty cool. you ought to be credited, make sure you let them know.
came across your blog while I was searching for arsenal fans, it would be good to hear from you on my gunners blog. Take care - April 30, 2009 10:48 PM
- Chethana said...
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wow - this is so different from your usual theme of work. And thrilling, in a weird way. You seem to have caught the "godfathers" in a very different sense than how the media usually captures them.
- May 04, 2009 2:24 PM
- humanobserver said...
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A nice presentation. Bravo ! I found your blog through a old copy of betterphotography magazine.
- May 05, 2009 10:06 AM
- Savaari said...
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Good thought and nicely presented. I like this unique study of yours. Good work.
- November 24, 2010 10:00 AM
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