''Shootout at Wadala'' is a 2013 Indian
Hindi
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biographical
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gangster
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crime film
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written and directed by
Sanjay Gupta
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. It is a
prequel
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to the 2007 film ''
Shootout at Lokhandwala
''Shootout at Lokhandwala'' is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and co-written by Apoorva Lakhia and co-written and co-produced by Sanjay Gupta, with Ekta Kapoor serving as producer and Suresh Nair serving as writer. ...
''. It is loosely based on the book ''
Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia'' by
Hussain Zaidi
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. The film features
John Abraham
John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian actor, film producer, writer and former model working in Hindi films. He has won a National Film Award and received five Filmfare nominations.
After modelling for advertisements and companies ...
,
Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor (born 24 December 1956) is an Indian actor and producer who works primarily in Hindi films, besides television and international films and television. In a career spanning over 40 years as an actor and since 2005 as a producer, Kapo ...
,
Kangana Ranaut
Kangna Amardeep Ranaut (; born 23 March 1987) is an Indian actress and filmmaker who works in Hindi films. Known for her work in female-led films, she is the recipient of several awards, including four National Film Awards and five Filmfar ...
,
Tusshar Kapoor
Tushar Ravi Kapoor (born 20 November 1976), popular as Tusshar Kapoor, is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi films.
Early and personal life
Tusshar Kapoor is the son of Indian actors Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor. His sister Ek ...
,
Manoj Bajpayee
Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also transliterated as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. Regarded as one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema, he i ...
and
Sonu Sood
Sonu Sood (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian actor, film producer, model, humanitarian, and philanthropist who works predominantly in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. In 2009, he received the Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Award for Best Vill ...
in lead roles. The film dramatises the encounter by
Bombay police in which gangster
Manya Surve
Manohar Arjun Surve (8 August 1944 – 11 January 1982), popularly known as Manya Surve, was an Indian Underworld Don in Bombay. He was one of the educated gangsters who graduated from college and very well known for challenging and d ...
was shot dead. It took place at the junction adjacent to Dr. Ambedkar College,
Wadala
Wadala (also spelled Vadala, formerly spelt Wuddala, əɖaːɭa is a locality in Mumbai. Wadala Road is a station on the Harbour Line of Mumbai's railway network.
Overview
Wadala has several schools and some renowned institutions like ...
,
Bombay
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on 11 January 1982.
The film released on 1 May 2013.
Plot
In a police van, Afaaque Baagwan listens to the story narrated by a gangster,
Manya Surve
Manohar Arjun Surve (8 August 1944 – 11 January 1982), popularly known as Manya Surve, was an Indian Underworld Don in Bombay. He was one of the educated gangsters who graduated from college and very well known for challenging and d ...
, who is gravely injured with a bullet-riddled body.
Manya Surve is a decent student at
Kirti college,
Dadar
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Dadar holds the distinction of being Mumbai’s first planne ...
. He is in love with Vidya Joshi and takes her to his mother to discuss their marriage.
Manya has an older brother named Bhargav Surve, who is a mawali (rowdy). Bhargav is in conflict with an underworld don named Bhatkar and is currently on the run.
Soon enough, Bhargav is attacked and beaten up by Bhatkar's goons. Manya steps in to save him. While Manya Surve clutches one of the goons, Bhargav stabs the goon, and he dies on the spot.
On the day of Manya's exam results, before he can discover his grades, Manya and his brother are arrested, and Manya is publicly humiliated at college by Inspector Ambolkar and end up in
Yerwada Central Jail
Yerwada Central Jail is a noted high-security prison in Yerwada, Pune in Maharashtra. This is the largest prison in the state of Maharashtra, and also one of the largest prisons in South Asia, housing over 5,000 prisoners (2017) spread over va ...
. In prison, another convict named Munir saves Manya from being attacked by a goon named Potya during lunch time. During this assault, Bhargav is killed. Munir befriends Manya and another convict named Veera. Veera trains Manya to become stronger. Manya trains and then eventually is challenged by Potya. Potya attacks him from behind and beats Manya up, to which Manya responds by stabbing Potya to death.
Later on, both Manya and Munir escape from prison while they are working on a railway track and try to join hands with two brothers who rule
Mumbai
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's deals. The first brother,
Zubair Imtiaz Haksar, is cool and is impressed by Manya. However, the second brother,
Dilawar, disapproves of Manya and dislikes him. After this, Manya forms his own gang, which consists of him, Munir, Veera, and Gyancho, a sharpshooter brought by Munir. Soon enough, Manya finishes off Bhatkar (the gangster who had him and his brother arrested). Jamal, Bhatkar's bodyguard, also joins them. Next, Manya brings Ambolkar to his knees by beating him brutally in public. The story next shows the death of Sadiq, an unscrupulous news reporter, by Mastan. This breaks a fight between the Haskar brothers and Mastan. Due to this, a truce is called by
Haji Maqsood. The truce is short lived as Maqsood asks Manya Surve to finish Zubair. After Zubair's assassination, Dilawar kills Gyancho with the help of Jamal. He is about to kill Munir when Manya saves him. Later, Afaaque is asked to kill Manya by Dilawar. Even after his refusal, at first, he agrees when the police commissioner orders him to. The story comes to an end after the shootout and Manya's killing by police.
Cast
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John Abraham
John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian actor, film producer, writer and former model working in Hindi films. He has won a National Film Award and received five Filmfare nominations.
After modelling for advertisements and companies ...
as Criminal Manya Surve, the main antagonist
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Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor (born 24 December 1956) is an Indian actor and producer who works primarily in Hindi films, besides television and international films and television. In a career spanning over 40 years as an actor and since 2005 as a producer, Kapo ...
as ACP Afaaque Baaghran (the character based on ''Isaque Bagwan'')
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Kangana Ranaut
Kangna Amardeep Ranaut (; born 23 March 1987) is an Indian actress and filmmaker who works in Hindi films. Known for her work in female-led films, she is the recipient of several awards, including four National Film Awards and five Filmfar ...
as Vidya Joshi
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Tusshar Kapoor
Tushar Ravi Kapoor (born 20 November 1976), popular as Tusshar Kapoor, is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi films.
Early and personal life
Tusshar Kapoor is the son of Indian actors Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor. His sister Ek ...
as Sheikh Munir
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Manoj Bajpayee
Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also transliterated as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. Regarded as one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema, he i ...
as Zubair Imtiaz Haksar (the character based on ''
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar (died 12 February 1981) was notorious Indian criminal based in Mumbai. He was the elder brother of Dawood Ibrahim, the current gang leader of the D-Company. The risen of Shabir and Dawood in Mumbai's underworld and the sym ...
'')
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Sonu Sood
Sonu Sood (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian actor, film producer, model, humanitarian, and philanthropist who works predominantly in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. In 2009, he received the Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Award for Best Vill ...
as Dilawar Imtiaz Haksar (the character based on ''
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Dawood Ibrahim (; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian mafia gangster, drug kingpin, and wanted terrorist from Dongri, Mumbai. He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Ibrahim i ...
'')
*
Akbar Khan as Haji Maqsood (character based on ''
Haji Mastan
Mastan Mirza (1 March 1926 25 June 1994), popularly known as Haji Mastan or Sultan Mirza, was an Indian mafia gang leader, originally from Tamil Nadu and based in Bombay. He was one of an infamous trio of mafia gang leaders in Bombay for over ...
'') (cameo)
*
Ronit Roy
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as Inspector Raja Ambat (the character based on ''Raja Tambat'')
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Mahesh Manjrekar
Mahesh Vaman Manjrekar (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, əɦeːʃ maːɲd͡zɾekəɾ born 16 August 1958) is an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer who works primarily in Hindi films, alongside Marathi language, ...
as Inspector Bhinde (the character based on ''Madhukar Shinde'')
*
Siddhanth Kapoor
Siddhanth Kapoor (born 6 July 1984) is an Indian actor and assistant director who works in Bollywood films. Son of actor Shakti Kapoor and brother of actress Shraddha Kapoor, he started his career by working as an assistant director in various ...
as Gyancho (the character based on ''Vishnu Patil'')
*
Ranjeet
Ranjeet Bedi (born 13 September 1942 as Gopal Bedi) popularly known as Ranjeet, is an Indian actor and film director born in Jandiala Guru near Amritsar (Punjab), best known for his work in Bollywood.Singh, Nonika (1999)Ranjeet's triple love" ...
as Bhatkar Dada
*
Jackie Shroff
Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff (born 1 February 1957), popularly known as Jackie Shroff, is an Indian actor and former model. He has been in the Bollywood industry for over four decades, and , has appeared in over 220 films in 13 languages namely Hi ...
as Police Commissioner (fictional) (cameo)
*
Raju Kher
Raju Kher is an Indian actor and director. He directed the television serial Sanskaar in 1999.
Filmography
Kher appeared in the following films and television serials:
Films
* Ghulam as Alisha's father
* Jungle as Mr. Malhotra
* Bub
* Om ...
as Inspector Ambolkar (the character based on ''Inspector E. S. Dabholkar'')
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Arif Zakaria
Arif Zakaria (born 11 November 1966) is an Indian actor. He has had roles in many films, beginning with his debut film ''Darmiyaan'' (1997), ''1947 Earth'' (1998), ''Dance like a man'' (2004), and biographical projects '' Mardana'' and the contr ...
as Sadiq (news reporter) (character based on ''Iqbal Naatiq'')
*
Raju Mavani
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Biography
Mavani was born in 1957. H ...
as Yakub Lala (the character based on ''Ayub Lala'')
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Chetan Hansraj
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Career
Hansraj started his career as a child actor in 1980, doing over 250 press advertisements and 30 ad films, and his debut film ''Kook Doo Koo'' was selected for th ...
as Potya (the character based on ''Suhas Bhatkar'')
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Karan Patel
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as Jamal (Bhatkar's bodyguard) (fictional)
* Sanjeev Chadda as Veera (the character based on ''Uday Shetty'')
* Vineet Sharma as Bhargav Surve
* Pankaj Kalra as Saeed Batla
* Shaji Chaudhary as Aurangzeb Mastan
Special appearances
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Sunny Leone
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as Laila in the
item number
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"Laila"
[ (role inspired from Zubair's girlfriend Chitra)
* ]Priyanka Chopra
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in the item number "Babli Badmaash".
* Sophie Choudry
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Early life
Sophie Ch ...
in the item number "Aala Re Aala"[
]
Controversy
Director Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at t ...
knew the consequences of using Dawood Ibrahim
Dawood Ibrahim (; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian mafia gangster, drug kingpin, and wanted terrorist from Dongri, Mumbai. He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Ibrahim i ...
's real name while shooting the film, but he carried on with Sonu Sood
Sonu Sood (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian actor, film producer, model, humanitarian, and philanthropist who works predominantly in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. In 2009, he received the Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Award for Best Vill ...
being addressed as "Dilawar Imtiaz" in the film. On 27 January 2013, Balaji Motion Pictures
Balaji Motion Pictures is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Balaji Telefilms Limited which is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Shobha Kapoor and her daughter Ekta Kapoor. Based in Mumbai, it produces and d ...
uploaded a new version of the theatrical trailer, and trimmed nearly every dialogue from the film off. The character of Dawood Ibrahim is only seen for three seconds in the new trailer, to avoid any problems. Also, the character names have been changed as well, except for Abraham's character, whose name remains the same in the film.
Soundtrack
The music of ''Shootout at Wadala'' is composed by Anu Malik
Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is an Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning musician, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film indus ...
, Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raaj Anand is an Indian composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry. He was nominated for the Best Music Director Filmfare Award for ''Kaante'' (2003).
Early life
Anand Raj was born on 8 November 1961 in Delhi in ...
, Meet Bros Anjjan
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Initially starting out ...
and Mustafa Zahid. Anu Malik was asked to compose for three songs for this film which were chartbusters.
Track listing
Critical reception
The film received a mixed reception from critics and audiences.
::''The ratings for the film provided by the reviewers have been tabulated. Below the table lies a collection of excerpts from the reviews, which can be matched to the respective rating as given in the table by seeing the source.''
Box office
India
''Shootout at Wadala'' had an opening of around 65% occupancy and went on to collect on first day.
After five days of release, the film had amassed a collection of . The two-week domestic distributor share is 255.0 million approx.[ The final total came out to be .]
Overseas
''Shootout at Wadala'' collected $900,000 over its first weekend. Its final overseas collection was US$1.625 million.
Budget and marketing
''Shootout at Wadala'' was made with a budget of of production costs. The prints and marketing budget was .
Pre-release business
''Shootout at Wadala'' was released in 2013 in theaters across the country through AA Films.
These figures do not include Print and Advertising (P&A) costs.
Sequel
Director Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at t ...
has stated his plans to make the third installment to the franchise, Shootout at Byculla. He has also said that he will restart his movie ''Alibaug'', starring Sunny Deol
Ajay Singh Deol (born 19 October 1956), better known by his stage name Sunny Deol, is an Indian actor, film director, producer, politician and current Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur (Lok Sabha constituency) of Punjab, India. As an actor, ...
, and turn it into the third sequel of the ''Shootout film series''. Also, actors Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan (born 5 February 1976) is an Indian actor and film producer known for his work in Hindi films. Part of the Bachchan family, he is the son of actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and the grandson of poet Harivansh Rai Bach ...
and John Abraham
John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian actor, film producer, writer and former model working in Hindi films. He has won a National Film Award and received five Filmfare nominations.
After modelling for advertisements and companies ...
have been rumoured to star alongside each other. Abraham will portray a real encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar
Vijay Salaskar, AC (24 February 1957 – 26 November 2008) was an Indian police inspector and encounter specialist with the Mumbai police. He was widely credited with killing 75–80 criminals in encounters – most of these were members of t ...
. The project is currently untitled, but it has been reported to be an "epic revenge saga".
References
External links
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''Shootout at Wadala''
at Bollywood Hungama
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The website provides ...
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