>> Born in Tilak Nagar, where his family still resides, it is said poverty and illiteracy forced Chhota Rajan to take up black-marketing of film tickets. He did this in the 1970s and ‘80s at Sahakar Cinema in Tilak Nagar.

>> He was under the tutelage of Rajan Mahadev Nair alias Bada Rajan who then headed a small gang and worked with underworld don Vardarajan Mudliar. An ambitious Rajan soon graduated from a petty criminal to become the right-hand man of Bada Rajan.