The Character is based on a Mumbai Local Goon who is recognised as Fake MBBS Doctor Murli Prasad Sharma (portrayed by Sanjay Dutt) is a leader in the Mumbai underworld.

which involves his adventures as a faux medical student, who finally tells the truth about himself and learns to help people along the way.

He begins to have visions of Mahatma Gandhi who persuades him to stop pretending he is a professor and teaches him to help other people solve their problems through Gandhism, which Munna Bhai terms Gandhigiri.

[3] Dutt reprised his role of Munna Bhai in several Acko commercials.

[5] The film Lage Raho Munna Bhai popularised the term Gandhigiri.