Unfortunately, Shootout at Wadala’s script lacks tension. When a crowd at a multiplex starts whistling – and it isn’t either Sunny Leone or Priyanka Chopra or Sophie Choudhry gyrating on the screen – you know it’s a job well done. Anil Kapoor, Ronit Roy and Mahesh Manjrekar, who play policemen, deliver a few sparklers. These are lines written to get the crowd hooting and many are bang on target. In the first half, there are some zippy dialogues that are cheesy, but funny. Shootout at Wadala begins at the end, with a bloody Surve in a police van, and the story is told in flashback. There he meets Sunny Leone, starts a feud with a gangster duo, sets up his own gang, robs a few banks, kills a few people and then gets stuffed with bullets in an encounter with the police. He then breaks out of jail with a friend, Sheikh Munir (Tusshar Kapoor), and shows up in Mumbai. The stepbrother’s murder is avenged and Surve becomes boss of the prison. Largely to save his hide, Surve decides to beef up and learn some self-defence moves. What conditioner did they give in Yerwada Central Jail, one wonders?). In jail, Surve’s stepbrother is killed by a man with a jutting jaw (who, incidentally, also has the kind of hair that you expect in a Sunsilk advertisement. Instead of just arresting him, a policeman pulls off his belt and whips Surve with it in the college hallway – miraculously, the policeman’s pants don’t fall off – and then packs Surve off to jail with his stepbrother. Unfortunately, this poor lad becomes an accessory to murder that his stepbrother commits. He wore kurtas, prayed regularly, didn’t cheat in his exams and had a chaste romance with the girl he hoped to marry, aai shapath. In the 1970s, there was a good, Marathi mulga named Manohar Arjun Surve who studied in Kirti College. Still, if you’re so inclined, here’s the plot of Shootout at Wadala. If you think knowing the plot of the film would help you appreciate the nuggets of wisdom better, you’re vastly mistaken. The hair on Anil Kapoor’s back has grown back since Race 2. He could give Mithun Chakraborty a run for his Disco Dancer money.ħ. Having seen both Manoj Bajpai and Abraham’s manoeuvres, I must say Bajpai is the winner. When someone is shot repeatedly, they may not die but their body will break out impressive disco dancing moves. No wonder he’s the only one who breaks a sweat while she looks dazed and confused for most of the film.Ħ.
After some passionate groping, when it’s time to really up the ante, John Abraham’s Surve gets under the covers and does push-ups with his girlfriend (Kangana Ranaut) below him. Missionary position sex, at least when gangsters do it, really is a workout. You could do tai chi classes in Pune’s Yerwada Jail.ĥ. If you’re looking for a murderer, he's the guy whose jaw juts out as though it’s trying escape the rest of his face.Ĥ. The bar had a dusty courtyard in which cowboys could have had shotgun duels, but since this was India and the ’80s, it became a parking lot festooned with Chinese paper lanterns.ģ. It had a bar called Horseshoe Bar, where dancers (who looked like they’d forgotten most of their belly dancing costume) danced on tables and trucks.
There used to be a mysterious neighbourhood in Mumbai that looked like the set of an abandoned cowboy film. Everyone in Shootout at Wadala has the kind of tan that would make Snooki look natural.Ģ. In the 1980s, tanning was big business in Mumbai. Here are some of the things that Shootout at Wadala has taught me.ġ. From this we may deduce that director Sanjay Gupta’s film about Manya Surve, the first recorded victim of an ‘encounter’ with the Mumbai Police, is intended to be not just fun, but also educational. Hussain Zaidi’s book From Dongri to Dubai, about Mumbai’s underworld. Instead of the usual disclaimer at the start of a film that the following feature is a fictional work, Shootout at Wadala begins with a notice that tells the audience that the film’s story is inspired by S.
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