Ex-R&AW chief was ‘shocked’ when Nikkhil Advani cracked the agency’s plan to catch Dawood via Google: ‘I can’t believe you got it’

Nikkhil said that Dulat was “shocked” by their script. He added, “He said that the only way you could get him back is the way that you have done, which is put him in the back of a car and bring him across. Everywhere else is being monitored, this is the only way you can get him, as rudimentary as that, put him in the trunk of the car and bring him. He said we had plans about that, ‘When, how can we do it?’ He said I can’t believe you got it.”

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D-Day starred Rishi Kapoor as Goldman, the character based on Dawood Ibrahim. In the same chat, Nikkhil shared that he initially offered another part to Rishi but the actor refused. He then gave a look test for the Dawood character, and looked perfect in the part. Nikkhil recalled that when he told Irrfan about Rishi’s casting, he was certain that Rishi would steal the show. “I told him Chintu ji was playing Dawood and Irrfan said, ‘It’s over for all of us. He’s going to take the full film.’ He was right,” he said.