Mumbai Confidential

Mumbai Confidential
Cover of "Good Cop, Bad Cop", the first volume in the series
Publication information
Publisher	Archaia
Format	Limited series
Genre	Crime noir
Publication date	May 2013
Main character(s)	Arjun Kadam Sunil Sawant Yateem Qureshi
Creative team
Created by	Vivek Shinde Saurav Mohapatra
Written by	Saurav Mohapatra
Artist(s)	Vivek Shinde
Colourist(s)	Vivek Shinde Saurav Mohapatra
Collected editions
Book 1 "Good Cop, Bad Cop"	ISBN

Mumbai Confidential is a hardboiled comic book series by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde, published by Archaia. The story is set in the Indian city of Mumbai against the backdrop of the Mumbai Police Encounter killings, a series of alleged extrajudicial slayings carried out by an elite squad of policemen. The story contains a western crime noir narrative, and a setting and structure inspired by Bollywood movies.

The first volume, titled "Good Cop, Bad Cop", was launched at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2012. It was initially made available as a digital comic from Comixology, serialized into a 9-issue run. The hardcover print edition was released on 21 May 2013.

"Good Cop, Bad Cop" follows the story of Arjun Kadam, a washed-out, drug-addicted ex-cop in Mumbai, as he tries to solve the murder of a street urchin. His investigation brings him face to face with his own murky past as a member of the Encounter Squad of the Mumbai Police. The story begins in media res at the chronological end as Kadam is involved in a bloody shoot-out in the alleys of the Dharavi slums. A series of flashbacks follow his tale as he navigates the Mumbai Underworld, forming alliances with gangsters against his former colleagues, the Encounter Cops.

Mumbai Confidential is inspired by the "Mumbai gangster noir" movies by Ram Gopal Verma, Anurag Kashyap, and others, including Satya, Company, and Black Friday. Hardboiled crime fiction from the West also has major influences on the series. It is thematically influenced by the Hong Kong crime movies and seminal crime-noir comics like Criminal, Sin City, and 100 Bullets.