The prison features in Gregory David Roberts' award-winning book Shantaram, which details his life on the run and his time spent in Mumbai, including a stint in Arthur Road.
The film marked the debut of V. Shantaram's daughter Rajshree and Jeetendra.
The novel Shantaram, written by one of Australia’s most wanted fugitives Gregory David Roberts was written in the building.
The 1957 Hindi film, Do Aankhen Barah Haath by V.Shantaram was inspired by the story of an 'open-prison' experiment swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara, Maharashtra.
Author Gregory David Roberts places Babas inside in his description of Khareshwari in the novel Shantaram.