Bharat Shah is a diamond merchant, Hindi film financer and distributor, under his banner VIP Films. He has produced several Bollywood films, such as Dil Se.. (1998) starring Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala,[citation needed] Devdas (2001) starring Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai,and Rascals (2011) starring Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn and Kangana Ranaut.[citation needed] 2001, Shah was arrested following an investigation into whether a film he financed, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, was funded by the Indian mafia