Subhash K Jha

Bollywood doesn’t like to leave any stone turned. Remember the stoneman in Mumbai who bashed pavement dwellers' heads in while they slept? The psychotic guy's life is being filmed by producer Bobby Bedi in a film directed my Manish Gupta, better known for his association with Ram Gopal Varma.

The film entitled Stoneman presents the notorious real-life criminal in the thriller format. It features K K Menon and Arbaaz Khan as cops. Says Arbaaz, "What makes this real-life story interesting is the way it has been written. Manish Gupta who has written Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar has converted the gruesome serial killings into a thriller. Such is the screenplay that the needle of suspicious points to all the characters including me and K K Menon."

Stoneman is the latest film on real-life crimes. Decades ago, R. K Nayyar shot Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke about a real-life murder. Most recently, Anurag Basu's Gangster was inspired by the life and crimes of Abu Salem.