Filmmaker director and screen writer, Piyush Jha who received rave reviews for his 2009 film Sikandar has resurfaced in a new avatar as a crime novelist with 'Mumbaistan'.<br /><br />Mumbaistan Back-cover blurb- Mumbai, a city of dreams for many. But for others, a nightmare. Behind the façade of lustre and glamour churns a seething underbelly of squalor, corruption and crime. <br /><br />Mumbaistan's three explosive crime novellas unravel the subterranean secrets of maximum city—from the teeming maw of Dharavi and the wanton streets of Kamathipura to the swank high-rises of Bandra.<br /><br />A prostitute, her lover and a policeman play for high stakes in Bomb-Day.<br />Injectionwala exposes chilling medical malpractices and a lovelorn vigilante's twisted game plan.<br /><br />In Coma Man, a man awakens from coma after twenty years, and sets out in search of his wife— and himself.<br /><br />Macabre love stories, conniving cops and hard-boiled slumlords form the backdrop of a schizophrenic city that is brooding...dying.<br /><br />Welcome to Mumbaistan; a gritty, compelling take on the megalopolis that lives on the edge.
