Dawood Ibrahim
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Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar ( ; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian gangster, mob boss, drug lord and narcoterrorist. He is the leader of the organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Ibrahim is wanted on multiple charges of murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking and terrorism among others. He has been reported to live in Karachi, Pakistan, though the government of Pakistan denies it. He was designated a global terrorist by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council and by the United States in 2003 for masterminding the 1993 Bombay bombings and is said to have an influence in 26/11 attacks. The United States has a bounty of US$25 million on his head. In a Time list of the world's most notorious mob bosses, Ibrahim was ranked 9th. Ibrahim was third on Forbes' "The World's 10 Most Wanted" list from 2010 until it stopped publishing the list in 2011. In 2011, he was named number two on "The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives" by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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| Year | Film | Actor | Character's name | Lead role | Story |
| 2002 | Company | Ajay Devgn | Malik | | Based on true events |
| 2004 | Black Friday | Vijay Maurya | Dawood Ibrahim | | Biographical |
| 2005 | D | Randeep Hooda | Deshu | | Fictional |
| 2007 | Risk | Vinod Khanna | Khalid Bin Jamal | | |
| Shootout at Lokhandwala | Unknown | Big Boss | | Biographical | |
| 2010 | Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai | Emraan Hashmi | Shoaib Khan | | Based on true events |
| 2013 | Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobaara! | Akshay Kumar | | Fictional | |
| Shootout at Wadala | Sonu Sood | Dilawar Imtiaz Haksar | | Biographical | |
| D-Day | Rishi Kapoor | Iqbal Seth a . Goldman | | Fictional | |
| 2017 | Daddy | Farhan Akhtar | Maqsood | | Biographical |
| Haseena Parkar | Siddhanth Kapoor | Dawood Ibrahim | | ||
| Coffee with D | Zakir Hussain | D | | Fictional | |
| 2022 | An Action Hero | Gautam Joglekar | Masood Abraham Katkar | | |
| 2025 | They Call Him OG | Vincent Asokan | David Abraham | | |
| 2026 | Dhurandhar: The Revenge | Danish Iqbal | Dawood Ibrahim | | Based on true events |
References
- Firstpost2014http://www.firstpost.com/india/3-students-forced-to-end-their-dawood-hunt-after-money-runs-out-1373291.html/amp
- treasury2017https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl9742.aspx
- un2017https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/individual/dawood-ibrahim
- The name on the Mumbai street over terror attacks is Dawood Ibrahim. The Times. 13 July 2011.https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-name-on-the-mumbai-street-over-terror-attacks-is-dawood-ibrahim-zd2zj9qjskd
- The Economist2017https://www.economist.com/news/international/21583285-growth-slows-and-reforms-falter-economic-activity-shifting-out-india-made-outside
- The New York Times2015https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/opinion/fix-the-link-to-pakistan-bond-with-india.html
- The Guardian2008https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/02/mumbai-most-wanted
- India Today2020https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-denies-presence-dawood-ibrahim-karachi-baseless-un-india-grey-list-fatf-1714095-2020-08-23
- United Nations Security Council2025https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/individual/dawood-ibrahim-kaskar
- United States Department of the Treasury2025https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases
- Time2012https://web.archive.org/web/20120109041051/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2043575_2043788_2043675,00.html
- Forbes2025https://www.forbes.com/profile/dawood-ibrahim-kaskar/