The dialogues are stereotypical and there’s an astonishingly large smattering of abuses just for the shock value. What works as a deterrent for the film is its corny dialogues (by Milap Zaveri). Sanjay Gupta has always been known to make stylish film and here again, Shootout at Wadala looks and feels stylish, thanks to Sameer’s deft camerawork. The cinematography by Sameer Arya is one of the high points of the film. The film doesn’t sway from its path and is thoroughly enjoyable thanks to the way Gupta deals with the subject. And to a very large extent, he doesn’t mess it up.
And oh, Manya also has a love interest (Kangna Ranaut).ĭirection and Miscellaneous: Delving into a subject as serious as this and not messing it up must have been the ultimate challenge for Sanjay Gupta. Afaque (Anil Kapoor) and his team members do everything they can to tackle crime in the city. The opponents here are Zubair (Manoj Bajpai) and Dilawar (Sonu Sood). Siddhant Kapoor (Shakti Kapoor’s son) makes his debut playing a member of Manya’s gang and is called Gyanchod! Every gang has an enemy gang. Tusshar ‘the-producer’s-brother’ Kapoor is Manya’s confidante in this journey. Story: The story is centered around the first Hindu gangster of Mumbai, Manya Surve (John Abraham) and his meteoric rice and his subsequent fall. Adapting a non-fiction book into a film requires special skills because of the need to sieve all the facts presented in the book into the film’s narrative and all this while, keeping the film entertaining! This is exactly the reason I was intrigued to watch this film and to see what Sanjay Gupta had done with the subject material. Zaidi’s bestslling investigative book – Dongri to Dubai. The prequel to the smash hit, Shootout At Lokhandwala, is based on Hussain S.