| 词条 | Varadarajan Mudaliar |
| 释义 |
| name = Varadharajan Mudaliyar | image = https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung&source=android-browser&q=varadarajan+mudaliar#imgrc=r6o5-q9Ls_SL7M: | image_size = | caption = Varadharajan Mudhaliyar | birth_date = 1926 | birth_place = Thoothukudi, Madras Presidency, British India | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|01|02|1926|03|01|df=yes}} | death_place = Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | occupation = | spouse = }} Varadarajan Mudaliar (1926 – 2 January 1988), also known as Vardha Bhai, was an Indian Don. He was born in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. For two decades from early 1960s to 1980s, he was one of the most powerful mob bosses in Bombay along with Haji Mastan and Karim Lala.{{sfn|Zaidi|p=32}} Underworld careerVaradarajan was born in Thoothukudi in 1926 to a union leader who was shot to death by the police.{{sfn|Zaidi|p=20}} He moved to Bombay in 1945. Working as a porter at VT Station, he began his crime life by stealing dock cargo. Varada, as he was fondly called, was hugely popular among the poor south Indian residents in the Dharavi slums. He used the massive Dharavi slums as a safe haven to expand his criminal activities into a massive underworld empire of extortion, kidnapping, contract killing, illegal land encroachment, running illegal gambling and liquor dens, manufacturing illicit liquor and bootlegging. Varada had total control over the distribution racket of illicit liquor. His men used to fill rubber tubes of tyres with illicit liquor and leave them by the roadside to be collected by the truck drivers for transporting to other areas. His men used to also transport liquor barrels in taxis whose rear seats were removed for extra space for the barrels. It is said{{By who|date=February 2017}} that Varada started the arrangement of giving fixed monthly kickbacks to the police in his areas in return for a free run in his crime activities. In the early 1980s, after Haji Mastan gave up his smuggling operations and Karim Lala's Pathan gang was weakened by a split between Samad Khan and Dawood Ibrahim, Varadarajan emerged as the strongest gang leader.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} Varadarajan ran a parallel judicial system within the South Indian community in his strongholds. Starting the 1980s, police officer Y.C. Pawar targeted Varadarajan Mudaliar. Most of his gang members were eliminated or imprisoned. His illegal gambling and liquor dens were closed down and finally by the end of 1983, Varadarajan was forced to abandon his underworld empire and flee from Mumbai to Tamil Nadu. Personal lifeWhile a porter at CST Station, Varadarajan began offering food to the poor at the nearby dargah of Bismillah Shah Baba and kept the tradition up as his fortunes rose.{{sfn|Zaidi|p=22}} His opulent pandals at Matunga station during the annual Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations were quite famous and visited by celebrities.{{sfn|Zaidi|p=31}} However, after the collapse of the cotton mills in Mumbai in the mid-1980s, their relevance ended {{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}. During the period of Varadarajan's fading influence, his hugely popular Ganpathi pandal was served an eviction notice at the behest of the police in the mid-1980s. This was also the time when most members of his gang were jailed or eliminated in encounters forcing him to flee Mumbai for Chennai where he led a retired life till his demise in January 1988 following a heart attack.[1] Haji Mastan brought his body to Mumbai in a chartered Indian Airlines plane for last rites{{sfn|India Today|1988|ps=: "When he died of a heart attack on 2 January, Haji Mastan - underworld king from whom he allegedly inherited a vast smuggling operation — flew to Madras to accompany his body to Bombay in a chartered Indian Airlines jet."}} as per Varda's wishes {{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}. Many people mourned his death. Life came to a standstill in Dharavi, Matunga and Sion Koliwada when his body was flown into the city{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}. Varadarajan's dear friend, Selva, was with him throughout his adult life till his death. In popular cultureIn 1983, in the film Ardh Satya, the character of Rama Shetty played by actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar was loosely based on Varadarajan. In 1984, actor Amrish Puri played a character called Varadarajan of Dogharbhatti in the movie, Mashaal. In 1987, Mani Ratnam made his film Nayakan, loosely based on Varadarajan's life. Actor Kamal Hassan played the lead role.{{sfn|The Hindu|2012-10-20}} The 1988 Hindi movie Dayavan, starring Vinod Khanna was a remake of Nayakan. One of the characters in the 1991 Malayalam film Abhimanyu, which was based on the Mumbai underworld activities, holds resemblance to Muthaliar with the character's name being the same. In a television interview, Amitabh Bachchan stated that he modeled his dialogues and mannerisms in the movie Agneepath after Varadarajan's.{{sfn|Times of India|2011-07-03}} In the 2012 Telugu film Businessman, loosely based on Varadarajan's activities in Mumbai. Actor Mahesh Babu essayed the role. In the 2013 Tamil movie Thalaiva, Sathyaraj's character is mainly extracted from Varadarajan's life. Vijay played the lead and as Sathyaraj's son. In the 2015 Tamil movie Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka, starring Mithun Chakraborty a character is mainly extracted from Varadarajan's life. Citations1. ^{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/When-Tamil-dons-ruled-Bombay/articleshow/49623540.cms| title=When Tamil Dons ruled Bombay | work=The Times of India | date=2 November 2015 | accessdate=11 November 2016}} References
| last = Zaidi | first=S. Hussain | year = 2012 | title = Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of Mumbai Mafia | publisher = Roli Books | place = New Delhi | isbn = 978-81-7436-894-2 | ref = {{sfnRef|Zaidi}} }}
| last = Dey | first = J. | author-link = J. Dey | title = Fear was his best tool | newspaper = MiD DAY | date = 30 July 2010 | accessdate = 22 July 2013 | url = http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/jul/300710-varadarajan-mudaliar-tamil-don-mumbai-underworld.htm | ref = {{sfnRef|MiD DAY|2010-07-30}} }}
|title=A Don's Funeral |department=Statenotes |journal=India Today |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hl5DAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=25 July 2013 |date=January 1988 |page=22 |ref = {{sfnRef|India Today|1988}} }}
| last = Haasan | first = Kamal | author-link = Kamal Hassan | title = 'Of course Velu Nayakan doesn’t dance' | newspaper = The Hindu | publication-place = Chennai | date = 20 October 2012 | url = http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/of-course-velu-nayakan-doesnt-dance/article4008896.ece | ref = {{sfnRef|The Hindu|2012-10-20}} }}
| last = Singh | first = Vijay | url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-03/news-interviews/29732873_1_tamil-film-agneepath-haji-mastan | title = Amitabh Bachchan recalls the old dons of Bombay of yore | newspaper = Times of India | date = 3 July 2011 | accessdate = 22 July 2013 | ref = {{sfnRef|Times of India|2011-07-03}} }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mudaliar, Varadarajan}} 14 : Indian mobsters|1926 births|1988 deaths|Bootleggers|People from Thoothukudi|Organised crime in India|Indian criminals|Indian extortionists|Indian drug traffickers|Indian mob bosses|Indian money launderers|Indian smugglers|Crime in India|Criminals from Mumbai |
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