Season 1
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A cunning mastermind crafts a counterfeit empire, challenging the system while risking everything for power and redemption.
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A job opportunity brings Abdul Karim Telgi, a fruit seller from Khanapur to Bombay. When he is arrested for forgery nine years later, he meets Kaushal Jhaveri in prison and joins his gum wash gang.
Abdul successfully start to steal official stamp papers from trains, but needs a license to sell them in bulk. Against Kaushal's wishes, he uses political connections to try and acquire one from the Old Custom House but fails.
Abdul manages to acquire a license through political contacts but turns his back on the minister that helped him by allying with the new party in power.
Abdul formulates a strategy to get the management of the Nashik Press on his side and facilitates the promotion of their top bureaucrat. He gets the original machines, dyes and papers from the press and starts printing stamp papers.
By manipulating the shutdown of the press and the supply chain of the Old Custom House, Abdul monopolized the stamp market. His success having caught the attention of many, Abdul begins to befriend every new and bigger power in the state.
Born in Khanapur in Karnataka, Telgi became the mastermind behind one of the most ingenious schemes in Indian history that spread across multiple states and shook the entire country.