Have You Watched Matka King on Prime Video? The Real Story Will Blow Your Mind
Vijay Varma. Brij Bhatti. 1960s Bombay. You watched it. Got hooked. And now something is nagging at you — was any of this actually real? Short answer: yes. Very real. But the actual story? The one that happened on actual streets, with an actual man? It is bigger than the show. Messier too. More human. The kind of thing that does not fit neatly into eight episodes no matter how good the writing is.The character Brij Bhatti is fiction. The man who inspired him was not. His name was Ratan Khatri . And he was the only true, original Matka King this country ever had. Who Ratan Khatri Was? Ratan Khatri was born in 1932. Karachi. Sindhi Hindu family.Partition hit in 1947 and everything fell apart — for millions of people, including a teenage Ratan and his family who made the crossing into Bombay with almost nothing. No contacts. No money. New city, new language, starting from zero. He found work under Kalyanji Bhagat , who was running something called the Worli Matka at the tim...