Aamchi Mumbai

Mumbai and it's infamous underworld inspires yet another novel- a 900 page one this time. Vikram Chandra's latest novel "Sacred Games" seems to be a very engrossing story complete with Bolllywood songs and dialogues.
Also adding flavour to the accounts are familiar flowery street dialogue that needs an extensive glossary to explain to non-Indian readers.

Chandra is a pretty popular writer with translations in 11 languages. Hear him in an interview on NPR. [Link] The book in NPR's words:

Weighing in at 900 pages, the novel is Dickensian in scope, and part Godfather as well. Sacred Games follows a world-weary cop and a larger-than-life crime boss. Add in the world's largest film industry, Bollywood, a shady guru and the ever-present tension between India and Pakistan, and you have a full-blown literary potboiler.

Award winning writer Chandra is a UC Berkeley lecturer. [Link]