Mumbai Confidential

Mumbai Confidential
Cover of "Good Cop, Bad Cop", the first volume in the series
Publication information
PublisherArchaia
FormatLimited series
GenreCrime noir
Publication dateMay 2013
Main character(s)Arjun Kadam
Sunil Sawant
Yateem Qureshi
Creative team
Created byVivek Shinde
Saurav Mohapatra
Written bySaurav Mohapatra
Artist(s)Vivek Shinde
Colourist(s)Vivek Shinde
Saurav Mohapatra
Collected editions
Book 1 "Good Cop, Bad Cop"ISBN 1-9363-9365-4

Mumbai Confidential is a hardboiled comic book series by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde, published by Archaia. The story is set in the Indian city of Mumbai against the backdrop of the Mumbai Police Encounter killings,[1][2] a series of alleged extrajudicial slayings carried out by an elite squad of policemen.[3] The story contains a western crime noir narrative, and a setting and structure inspired by Bollywood movies.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Mohapatra, Saurav (21 May 2013). Google Books Listing. ISBN 9781936393657 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "GQ India March 2013". GQ India.
  3. ^ Time (magazine)
  4. ^ "LiveMint (Wall Street Journal India) Article on Mumbai Confidential". LiveMint/WSJ India. 27 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Are you ready for this MUMBHAI encounter". Mid-day Mumbai. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  6. ^ "Publishers Weekly review of Mumbai Confidential". Publishers Weekly.