He was born in Sicily. He immigrated to US illegally. He started off as a small time Italian goon and rose through the ranks. He became a mafia-chief. He became Godfather. He was Don Carlo Gambino.
Gambino also known as Godfather in the mafia-world was one of the inspiration of Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather and the legendary movie based on it. There are more than just a few common things between Vito Corleone and Carlo Gambino. Their life cycle and mannerisms have striking resemblances and many of them cannot be simply ruled out as just coincidences. Gambino was the head of Gambino family and like many other families in US; even they have attracted the movie makers a lot. Mafia has such a charm…
Gambino like Corleone didn’t endorsed drugs and even frowned on them harshly. This trait in Don Vito (influenced by Don Carlo Gambino) has been shown in many movies; especially the remakes made in India. In The Godfather, the problems came to fore when Don Vito declined the offer to deal with drugs. In Sarkar, Subhash Nagre refuses to do any anti-public business. In Agneepath, Vijay took a stand against drug-smugglers. Same philanthropy was exhibited by Velu in Nayagan and its counterpart in Dharmatma. Crime was okay but anti-people… no way.There has been a few semi-fictional depiction of Carlo Gambino. In telly-film Gotti, he was portrayed by Marc Lawrence and in telly-film Boss of bosses, by Al Ruscio. Both are considered to be close depictions of the character. However, according to Friends Marlon Brando’s Don Vito was near perfect. Maybe this is the reason; there have been only a few attempts to give it a shot…
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
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