Is Mumbai “really” safe ?

After an incident with Dino Morea and the crew of the upcoming movie “Bhram”, as reported by Mumbai Mirror in this article Dino and the crew certainly think that Mumbai isn’t safe after all.

The crew of the movie was busy shooting on the Gorai beach, when along came 3 local goons, totally drunk, in an auto-rickshaw and started demanding “hafta” from the movie-crew. All this was happening when the crew already had 3 police members stationed there for “security” ( )

What is more shocking is that instead of helping the crew, the police demanded that the crew should actually pay the goons so that they could go since they were dangerous and had high influences. ( Yeah right!! Dangerous ? So you carry a rotten banana in your holster ? Or a water pistol ? )

The goons event went ahead and assaulted Prasad, the movie’s Assistant Director, when the crew refused to pay. The cops, they say, stood as mere spectators.

The director, Pawan Kaul told to the paper, “We have lodged an FIR against inspector Gave, who was on duty. He, along with other inspectors started drinking from afternoon and bullied our spot boys to serve them chicken for lunch. It is a pity that this is the kind of security that we are given. The goons have broken equipments worth Rs 20 lakh. My producer will also file a case against the cops on duty”

The crew finally had to paid up to the extortionaists to get rid of them.

This incident has left Dino in a shock, and myself shocked and furious.

So here’s fifty paise to the extortionists and another fifty paise to the policemen on duty there to go buy a chicken and REAL gun.

So what they show in the films in true after all. *sigh*