Dhurandhar: Real-life Rehman Dakait killed mother at 15, was Lyari’s ‘king’ at 21, this is what happened after his encounter | Bollywood News
As Dhurandhar plays in theatres across the country and breaks massive records, special cheer is reserved for Akshaye Khanna’s phenomenal turn as Rehman Dakait, the villain of the piece in the first iteration of the Aditya Dhar film. It is a testament to his acting acumen that he walks on to the screen to whistles and cheers, Indian audiences giving it up for a Pakistani gangster. In real life, the life of Rehman Dakait was perhaps even more bizarre than what Dhar has portrayed in Dhurandhar. Born on the wrong side of the tracks near Karachi in 1976, Abdul Rehman was the son of Dad Mohammad and his second wife Khadija, as per a BBC report. Lyari is a group of poorest settlements where crime thrives on the back of crime-police nexus and gangs have the final word. Dad, along with his brothers, ran a drug trade and was at odds with rival gangs run by Iqbal, alias Baboo Dakait, and Haji Lalu’s gang. Other than drugs, they all ran extortion collection rackets. Akshaye Khanna’s …
