Hussain Zaidi is a writer, publisher, producer, scriptwriter and journalist, and an authority on the Mumbai mafia. He has his own successful imprint Penguin Blue Salt. His first book 'Black Friday' was adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Anurag Kashyap. Zaidi was associate producer for 'Terror in Mumbai', a HBO documentary on the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He has written several successful screenplays for TV such as 'Class of 83' (Netflix, produced by Shahrukh Khan) 'Dongri to Dubai' (Prime Video produced by Farhan Akhtar) and for film such as 'Gangubai Kathiawadi' directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and 'Phantom' directed by Kabir Khan.