Buzz is that Sanjay Dutt, who plays gangster roles better than anybody else in Bollywood and who was seen in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s romantic crime thriller Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 playing one last month, is likely to act as former underworld don Karim Lala in a biopic that’s reportedly going to be made.

Karim Lala was the doyen of Bombay’s Pathans and indisputably the first Godfather of the city’s criminal world. He was of Afghani ancestry and ruled the city’s gangland along with smuggler Haji Mastan with an iron-like fist.

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Ironically, ten years ago Milan Luthria wanted to make a gangster film on Karim Lala, Haji Mastan and Bombay’s South Indian strongman Varadarajan Mudaliar in which he intended to cast Dutt as Mastan.

Now, if the film on Karim Lala is made, Dutt will be first choice to play the Pathan gang lord. The production house behind this biopic is reportedly in the making itself but is believed to have several big projects in the pipeline among which is the Karim Lala film.