D Company (2021 film)

D Company is a 2021 Indian Hindi language docudrama film, written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Produced by Sagar Machanuru of Spark Production. The film was theatrically released on March 21, 2021 as a prelude to Ram Gopal Varma's D Company web series, also produced by Spark OTT. The web series and film make up the fifth and sixth installments of the Gangster franchise. They are unrelated to the original trilogy and Satya 2.

Premise
The film chronicles the events leading to Dawood Ibrahim's rise and subsequent formation of the "D" company - an organized crime syndicate running outside India's borders.

Cast

 * Ashwat Kanth as Dawood Ibrahim
 * Shaleen Malhotra as Manya Surve
 * Rudr Kanth as Saabir Ibrahim
 * Naina Ganguly

Reception
A critic from Pinkvilla opined that "Ram Gopal Varma’s directorial is a crashing bore of a gangster flick".