Pankaj Mishra, in a review of Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found repeats the following anecdote from that book (NYRB, 2004-11-18, p.18):
In another scene, Chopra, the film director Mehta has worked with, stands before a row of cable operators arrested for screening illegally his new film and orders a pliant police officer to
break their legs.