Crime and mystery have always intrigued Bollywood — especially when it relates to high-profile cases. There have been times when filmmakers did not mind taking up a real-life incident as inspiration even though they were earlier attempted on celluloid. For instance, the 2008 Noida double murder of teenager Aarushi Talwar and her family's domestic help, Hemraj, has inspired multiple films of late.

Irrfan will be seen as the investigating officer in Meghna Gulzar's 'Talvar', which is based on the Aarushi Talwar murder case. Tabu will make a special appearance as his wife

Manish Gupta's 'Rahasya' incorporated the 14-year-old's murder as the film's basic premise while Meghna Gulzar has come up with 'Talvar', earlier titled 'Nyodda', on the same topic. hitlist takes a look at other true-life incidents which were taken up by two or more filmmakers...

Dawood Ibrahim
Underworld is undoubtedly one of the favourite themes of Hindi films. The fascination for dreaded don Dawood Ibrahim has been evident in the many gangster movies that Bollywood has been consistently churning out. Anurag Kashyap's 'Black Friday' (2004) was the first film in which Vijay Maurya's character was called Dawood Ibrahim.