Mandrax, a beating, and the name Ashwathama
Mathu teaches Gaitonde to sell pills; a thrashing he barely feels convinces him he cannot die.
Mathu
Gaitonde's first friend in Bombay and his partner in the earliest hustles. Played by Vikram Kochhar.
8 moments · 14 min
A chicken bone in a Hindu hotel
Mathu dares Gaitonde to eat meat; Gaitonde turns it into a lesson on how a single bone can wreck a pure-veg business.
Killing Salim Kaka on the boat
Gaitonde recalls his second father, the ball-breaker smuggler, and the night he decided bravery meant shooting him.
The leopard: Gaitonde decides to ravage Bombay
Back in the bunker Sartaj hears how Gaitonde and Mathu sat on buried gold until a leopard in the jungle made him feel like God.
Turned away at the door, Gaitonde sees Isa for the first time
Bouncers call him a beggar with money, and from the gutter Gaitonde watches Suleiman Isa walk in, deciding on the spot to bring him down.
Mathu quits and goes home, leaving Gaitonde with nothing
Mathu packs his bag and finally admits he is scared; Gaitonde counts what is left after Momin, Parulkar and the municipality close ranks.
Gaitonde gets used to 22 days of beatings and finds Mathu in prison
Gaitonde recalls the daily routine of beatings, then runs into his old smuggling partner, who boasts of running the jail and warns of a plan to kill him inside.
Gaitonde and Mathu against forty of Isa's men
Called a rat and dragged out of isolation, a skeletal Gaitonde insists he will not die and walks into the yard where Isa's men are waiting.