Dawood Rangan

HITMAN™ 2 / III
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In-Game Information

Gender:

Male

Nationality:

Indian 🇮🇳

Status:

Deceased

Date of Death:

August 2020

Occupation(s):

Actor
Film Producer

Relations:

The Crows (Formerly)
- Wazir Kale (Former friend)
- Vanya Shah (Former friend)
Rangan Tower
- Karthek Kulkrani (Personal bodyguard)
- Karisma (Employee)
- Mira Kham (Employee)
- Gregory Arthur (Employee)
- Karan Dhar (Hired assassin)
- Soham Hussain (Hired Painter)
- Mike (Hostage)

Signature Weapon(s):

N/A

Real-World Information

Appearances:

HITMAN™ 2
HITMAN™ III (Mentioned) (Seen in Picture/TV)

Voice Actor:

Sagar Arya

Dawood Rangan (also known as "The Showman") is a target that appears in the Chasing a Ghost mission in HITMAN™ 2.

Background[]

Part-time Bollywood producer and full-time mobster working with the Maelstrom on taking down Providence assets in Asia, Dawood Rangan is a big guy with an imposing, broad smile, a manly mustache, and a warm handshake. Known to pay off city officials and cheat his extras out of pay, Rangan is in reality a ruthless mobster involved in illegal gambling, extortion and protection rackets. He uses his films for money laundering and as vehicles for siphoning money around India through a wide range of production companies and has been quite successful at it.

Originally from the Southern part of India, Rangan came to Mumbai at the age of seven. He lost both his parents at the age of nine and lived on the streets of Mumbai for a long time, joining the street gang known as The Crows alongside Wazir Kale and Vanya Shah. When things got hot for the gang, he joined his two friends with the catastrophic hijacking of a Hamsun Oil freighter. After the incident, Rangan went back to Mumbai and got in touch with old associates. His flair for self-promotion and knack for financial crime earned him a chance to work as a Bollywood producer, a role he quickly warmed to. Working both as a mobster and film producer proved enriching for Rangan and he was doing well for himself when his old friend, Wazir Kale, The Maelstrom, arrived in Mumbai with a substantial bank account and plans to topple the secret leaders of the world. Rangan is a typical mobster, engaging himself in financial crime such as extortion, fraud, money laundering, insurance scams and gold smuggling. He is not above dishing out violence and behind his smile lives a sociopath who cares little for the lives of others. He will ruin everything he comes across if it serves his purposes, but he has managed to create a public persona that embodies nothing but positive qualities. He is well-liked by the general population because he has been able to spend other people's money on prestige projects that may do very little actual good but which have always managed to get him on tv and on magazine covers.

― Target Intel

Description[]

Dawood Rangan was a member of Wazir Kale's gang, The Crows. When the gang was destroyed by the Mumbai Mafia, he would go on to join Kale in his career as a dreaded pirate. After their crew was massacred in a highjacking gone wrong, Dawood returned to Mumbai and established himself as a Bollywood producer and powerful crime lord. He also had a rivalry with fellow gang member, Vanya Shah.

After aiding The Maelstrom in assassinating a Providence CEO in Shanghai, Agent 47 was sent to Mumbai to eliminate Dawood, along with Vanya and The Maelstrom. In the game, he was observed as a busy man, as he is rushing in wrapping up his new film "Mumbai Hero" in his unfinished tower, surrounded by the film crew and various armed bodyguards. 47 would successfully eliminate Dawood and his other two allies, putting an end to their hold on the city.

Personality[]

Dawood Rangan is narcissistic and easily enraged, constantly sabotaging film shoots so the crew can stroke his ego, or threatening to murder people for petty things like refusing to kiss him or being more famous than him. He is also extremely cheap, trying to pay an artist in exposure even though he is a multimillionaire. Rangan is a haughty, vain and cruel individual. He casually orders the murder of a person who has displeased him over the phone and will personally kill the prisoner being held in his building if the player does not intervene. He has hired a famous painter to create oversized, garish portraits of himself, which he uses to decorate his office.

Dawood's ego is so tremendous that even the smallest criticism of him causes him to fly off the handle. His ego is also shown by his mansion being covered in self-portraits. He is also cruel, taunting one of his guards for losing money on a game that Dawood rigged. He has also hired a Bollywood director and actress for a film starring himself.

Dawood spends most of his time inside Rangan Tower, a sprawling private luxury residence of his which is currently under construction.

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Trivia[]

In On Top of the World, his cause of death is mentioned by Marcus Stuyvesant, as his former bodyguard is being recruited to be his personal bodyguard. For Marcus, he has considered Dawood's death as "tragical".
He seems to be unpopular, as evidenced by a his death due to a malfunctioning fan, in which his crew celebrate his demise and make jokes about his sudden death. Those who do respect him, only respect him for his work and utterly loathe him as an individual.
He is incapable of recognizing the needs of anyone other than him and only shows respect to the Maelstrom, although this is purely because the Maelstrom enables him to do whatever he wants.
The Kashmirian was contracted to kill Dawood Rangan by Vanya Shah, but the Kashmirian decided to tell his target. Dawood in return contracted the Kashmirian to kill Vanya.
A footage of Dawood Rangan's movie from Mumbai was projected at a cinema room in Ambrose Island.
Dawood's residence, Rangan Tower, is likely based on the real-world Antilia Tower in Mumbai. Worth over a billion dollars, its use as an extravagant single-family private residence was highly controversial.