Copies of a Bollywood film featuring a Southall wheeler-dealer character who sells pirate DVDs were among illegal copies seized in the town this week.

The discovery was made during an joint investigation by Ealing Council Trading Standards officers and the Police, on Saturday (30 June) in a basement of the Himalaya Palace shopping mall in The Broadway, Southall.

The batch of around 3,000 DVDs and music CDs, valued at around £15,000 included illegal copies of the latest Bollywood film Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, which features Abhishek Bachchan as a ‘loveable rogue’ from Southall.

Copies of the hit movies Life in a Metro, starring Shilpa Shetty, and Cheeni Kum, starring Amitabh Bachchan were also discovered during the investigation.

Doug Love, Ealing Council’s Head of Trading Standards, said: “It is ironic that copies of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom were among the copies we discovered.

Sgt Shahid Malik, of the Police’s Southall Broadway Safer Neighbourhood Team, said: “This was excellent partnership work between us and the Council and we will continue to do everything we can to catch those who sell counterfeit DVDs.”

One man has been arrested in connection with the investigation.