How Dhirubhai Ambani Defeated Manu Manek, India's Black Cobra | The 1982 Stock Market War

How Dhirubhai Ambani Defeated Manu Manek, India's Black Cobra | The 1982 Stock Market War In this documentary, we uncover the incredible true story of how one phone call triggered one of the biggest short-selling attacks in Indian stock market history, forcing the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) into an unprecedented settlement crisis. Discover how Manu Manek and the powerful Bear Cartel attempted to destroy Reliance before its Rights Issue, how the secret Friends of Reliance network quietly absorbed millions of shares, and how Dhirubhai Ambani turned the entire game around with one of the greatest short squeezes ever witnessed in India. This is the untold battle that changed Reliance forever and became one of the greatest masterstrokes in Indian business history. 📌 In this documentary: The rise of Manu Manek – India's Black Cobra The Bear Cartel's short-selling strategy Reliance Rights Issue explained Friends of Reliance secret broker network Anand Jain's role in the counterattack The mysterious NRI investments Physical share delivery crisis Badla System & Backwardation explained Why BSE remained closed for 3 trading days How Dhirubhai Ambani defeated the Bear Cartel The historic 1982 Short Squeeze If you enjoy documentaries about business, investing, the stock market, Reliance, and India's greatest corporate battles, don't forget to Like, Share, Comment, and Subscribe for more deeply researched stories. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS :- ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 – The Deadly Phone Call (18 March 1982) 01:51 – Who was Black Cobra? 03:54 – Dhirubhai Ambani: The People's Sultan 04:44 – The Triple War: Ambani vs Wadia vs Manu Manek 06:41 – The Secret Plan: Friends of Reliance 09:31 – Friends Of Relaince: Enter In Ring 10:45 – The 42-Day Siege: Bear Cartels Use Badla System 11:20 – 30 April 1982: The Trap is Sprung 12:14 – Undha Badla (Backwardation) & Market Shutdown 13:41 – The Final Masterstroke: Play By Dhirubhai Ambani 14:39 – Legacy & Ethics: Hero or Villain? Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Disclaimer: This video is created solely for educational, informational, and documentary purposes. The content presented is based on publicly available information, news reports, articles, and research sources believed to be reliable at the time of creation. Some scenes, visuals, dialogues, and sequences may be recreated, dramatized, or simplified for storytelling and illustrative purposes in this 2D documentary format. This video does not intend to provide financial, investment, or legal advice. Viewers are advised to conduct their own research before making any financial or investment decisions. The creators do not intend to spread misinformation, defame, harm, or target any individual, company, organization, or community. All trademarks, logos, and brand names belong to their respective owners. Viewer discretion is advised. #DhirubhaiAmbani #ManuManek #BlackCobra #Reliance #StockMarket #ShareMarket #BusinessDocumentary #IndianStockMarket #BSE #BearCartel #ShortSelling #IPO #BusinessHistory #StockMarketHistory #IndianBusiness #Documentary #RelianceIndustries #DalalStreet #shortSqueezeWar