Saurav Mohapatra (left) and Vivek Shinde (right) with writer Saumin Patel who contributed with a short story for Mumbai Confidential You’ve been warned, so hoove’s to blame if you don’t take heed?īack in early 2013, this diarist was one of the first to write about Mumbai Confidential - a graphic novel ode to the seminal Bollywood angry young man/encounter cop movie that blended with Western hardboiled crime noir. This diarist suggests that walkers who make their pilgrimage to the race course on weekend evenings had better make enquiries well in advance instead of having to do an about turn.
Includes five additional short stories illustrated by different artists that serve to complement the main narrative.Clearly, the announcement spells bad news for this bunch. Vivek Shinde has previously illustrated Snake Woman and Project: Kalki for Virgin Comics. 
Saurav Mohapatra has previously written The Sadhu and Devi for Virgin Comics. Obsessed with his mission, Kadam sets off a desperate gambit of deadly intrigue and deception that pits him against the very machine of violence and corruption he once helped create.įrom writer Saurav Mohapatra (Witchblade, Devi) and artist Vivek Shinde (Snake Woman, Project: Kalki) comes a hard-boiled tale of crime, punishment, and redemption in the seedy underbelly of Mumbai. Upon awakening, he finds a new sense of purpose and pursues the investigation, taking him on a journey through the deep, dark heart of Mumbai - from the glitzy tinsel of Bollywood, to the dank depths of the Mumbai Underworld, where the line between the police and the criminals has been blurred beyond recognition by his ex-colleagues on the Encounter Squad, who are now de-facto gangsters in uniform, running the very same extortion rackets they were tasked to eradicate. When Kadam is the victim of a hit-and-run that also claims the life of a street urchin, he goes into coma for a month. 
Five years ago, Arjun Kadam used to be a cop, a rising star in the ranks of the Mumbai Encounter Squad - an elite unit tasked by the powers-that-be to carry out extrajudicial executions of notorious gangsters.īut the death of his pregnant wife at childbirth derailed his life and set him off on a spiral of depression and drug addiction, a pale shadow of his former self.
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