The recent Karan Kakkad killing has once again highlighted the fatal attraction between glamour and the crime world

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The recent Karan Kakkad killing has once again highlighted the fatal attraction between glamour and the crime world

It obviously makes for a spine chilling thriller, an ideal script for a filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma style film. The grisly murder of a rich man, closely associated with the world of glamour, once again exposes the uneasy relationship shared with the world of crime. Be it the case of Delhi's wannabe film producer Karan Kakkad’s Bollywood dreams in Mumbai costing him his life, or other high profile ones — there’s no denying the fatal attraction crime and glamour share for each other. In yet another case, an actor couple was arrested in Mumbai for the murder of a 26-year-old junior film artiste Meenakshi Thapa for money. Thapa was working on Madhur Bhandarkar's film, Heroine. Last month, another starlet Nupur Mehta was in the eye of a storm, for apparently being involved in match-fixing during the World Cup last year. In fact, the nexus between crime and glamour go long way. A senior cop on condition of anonymity reveals, “Young models are often used as honey-traps to trick wannabe producers or single rich business men related to Bollywood to make some quick bucks. The modus operandi is similar — befriend an actor or producer, dig out information of their financial details and go for the kill. In fact they win confidence of such people by making them win a few lakhs through cricket betting too. Hence whenever 3Cs — charm, crime and cricket come together it may have fatal results.” But even without cricket in the picture, in the past too glamour and crime have grabbed the limelight for some wrong reasons. “The entertainment industry and crime share a very old relationship. In the past too, B-Town’s dark side was revealed. Be it in cases like starlet Monica Bedi and underworld Don Abu Salem’s love affair, or yesteryear actor Mandakini’s apparent connection with D-company boss Dawood Ibrahim. Or then, South actor Maria Susairaj’s arrest for allegedly killing TV producer Neeraj Grover with the help of her beau Jerome. Producer Gulshan Kumar went down in film history as one of the earliest to bring out the nexus between Bollywood and crime, when he was shot to death by gangsters on a busy street in Mumbai. Others also include cases of A-list actors for gun possession. Down South too, the involvement of certain actors in supposed prostitution rackets have raised many eyebrows,” adds the source.