He delivers all his lines with the immense shock value which is required on a no nonsense Police Officer. If you have forgotten Maya Bhai (From Shootout At Lokhandwala), Trust me, John Abraham will create a new terror of Manya Bhai in your hearts.Īnil Kapoor is electrifying as ACP Ishaque Bagwan. At many points, John makes you believe that no one could have done justice to the character of Manya Surve like he did.
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Manya becomes a menace to the cop ACP Ishaque Bagwan (Anil Kapoor).īoth the brothers Dilawar and Zubair wants Manya dead at any cost, On the other hand ACP Ishaque Bagwan will show no mercy to finish what Manya has started.Īs far as the Performance goes, John Abraham is tremendous as Manya Surve. Manya, a young-dangerous and cheeky gangster who dared to break rules and threaten the supremacy of the biggies including Dilawar Imtiyaz Haskar (Sonu Sood) and his brother Zubair Imtiyaz Haskar (Manoj Bajpayee). In jail, He befriends with Sheikh Munir (Tusshar) and flees from the prison to form a new gang. Manya Surve (John Abraham) is about to face life imprisonment for a crime which he has not committed.
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The only common relative factor here is the notorious gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar (Name changed to ‘Dilawar Imtiyaz Haskar’). This one is a fresh film with a fresh plot. Let me also clarify, Shootout At Wadala is no ways any sequel to Shootout At Lokhandwala (2007) which was produced by Sanjay Gupta and Ekta Kapoor. Instead of this self-indulgent gore-fest, we would have appreciated a little more focus on the gangsters' psyche.Based on the infamous 1992 gang encounters in Bombay, The film dramatizes the events leading up to Mumbai police’s first-ever registered encounter where gangster Manya Surve was shot dead. Master filmmaker Christopher Nolan once said, “The mind is the scene of crime." Rest of the cast is average, with only Sonu Sood standing out.
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To top it all, Gupta, quite audaciously, rips off one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history - Sonny Corleone’s assassination in The Godfather.Īs far as performances are concerned, John Abraham lives up to expectations by adding a realistic mustache. The exaggerated action scenes and over-the-top violence makes it difficult to believe that the film is inspired from journalist S Hussain Zaidi’s non-fiction book Dongri to Dubai. Yet another standout element that fails to work in the film's favour is the dialogue. It's difficult to determine exactly what the writers were aiming for with dialogues like " Inkee tehzeeb mein bhi tezaab hai” and “ Maafi ke pehle do aksharon mein bhi MAA hai." In the middle of all the gory scenes where everyone kills everyone else because they are in a Sanjay Gupta movie, three women in bizarre clothing - Priyanka Chopra, Sunny Leone and Sophie Choudry - gyrate to songs that sound similar. Irrespective of what the scene demands, Kangna Ranaut plays one expression for the entire duration of the film. More petty thieves are picked up along the way to paint the city a bloody red.Īnil Kapoor, Ronit Roy and Mahesh Manjrekar play the cops while Manoj Bajpayee and Sonu Sood are rival mob-bosses who appear on screen as infrequently as ghosts This dramatic transition in character and an overnight shift in ideologies - as a student he wouldn’t even cheat during exams - is one of the many flaws of the movie.Īfter his stint in jail where he bulks up with the help of a trainer (who, by the way, looks more like a poor man’s Hulk Hogan), Manya escapes prison not as a reformed man but as a maniac armed with Tusshar Kapoor for a sidekick. John Abraham plays Manya Surve, a bright student with a promising future who turns against the system after being wrongly framed in a murder case. However, instead of engaging the viewers with a well-written screenplay, the film’s story runs all over the place with horrendous dialogues peppered with crass expletives that sound more inconsequential than sinister. Sanjay Gupta’s new film Shootout at Wadala documents the rise of crime in 1970s Mumbai and how, after local cops gunned down feared gansgter Manya Surve, the term 'encounter' entered the police lexicon.
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Shootout At Wadala fails on all counts, writes Ankur Pathak.