Time To Clasp The Fiddle’s Slick

Whether its Billy Wilder’s classics like Double Indemnity (1944) or The Apartment (1960) or a more recent Francis Ford Coppola’s 1997 thriller The Rainmaker—the idea of insurance frauds have been explored by leading Hollywood directors time and again. Back home, enough examples are available on the subject, which can help our Bollywood directors make moolahs. Yes, in a country like India where crime rates are substantially high, insurance frauds are pretty much a  commonplace activity. In fact, the game has a certain geographical angle to it as well. Around three years’ ago, leading insurerers marked certain regions spanning across few Indian states that reported maximum insurance frauds. These included Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and the eastern states of Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal. Among these, insurers further marked certain neck of the wood...