Shootout at Wadala

Plot

In a police van, Afaaque Baaghran listens to the story narrated by a gangster, Manya Surve, who is gravely injured by bullets.

Manya is a decent student at Kirti College, Dadar. 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 grabs one of the goons, Bhargav stabs the goon, who dies on the spot.

On the day of Manya's exam results, before he can learn his grades, Manya and his brother are arrested. Manya is publicly humiliated in the college by Inspector Ambolkar and ends up in Yerwada Central Jail. In prison, a 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 is eventually challenged by Potya. Potya attacks him to enraged 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's deals. The elder brother, Zubair Imtiaz Haksar, is cool and is impressed by Manya. However, the younger 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 for his earlier humiliation. The story next shows the death of Sadiq, an unscrupulous news reporter, by the Mastan gang. This leads to a fight between the Haskar brothers and the Mastan gang. A truce is called by Haji Maqsood, which is short lived as the Mastan gang asks Manya to finish off 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 so many times, and also showed Dilawar that one day he will be killed the scences cut off, Afaaque told the whole story and degrades the Police for not fully granting access to the encounters and killing the criminals. This influences the Commissioner into granting two choices to Afaaque, to directly encounter and kill Manya or stage an encounter and kill Dilaawar, but they opt for an easy option to encounter Manya, so, Afaaque vows to kill Manya. Afaaque manipulates Vidya to reveal Manya's whereabouts so enraged that he can save Manya, if he confesses his involvement in all the past crimes. Vidya does as told by Afaaque ,but the police do an encounter on Manya according to their pre-set plan and thus, misleading Vidya. In the final scene, when the ambulance arrives, Manya succumbs to the gunshot wounds which give immense shock to Vidya and she blankly stares at Afaaque's face and Afaaque tells the accompanying constable that Manya has been killed.

Cast

• Anil Kapoor as ACP Afaaque Baaghran (the character based on ACP Isaque Bagwan)
• John Abraham as Manya Surve
• Manoj Bajpayee as Zubair Imtiaz Haksar (the character based on Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar)
• Tusshar Kapoor as Sheikh Muhammad Yunus Munir
• Kangana Ranaut as Vidya Joshi
• Sonu Sood as Dilawar Imtiaz Haksar (the character based on Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar)
• Ronit Roy as Inspector Raja Ambat (the character based on Inspector Raja Tambat)
• Mahesh Manjrekar as Inspector Yashwanth Bhinde (the character based on * Inspector Madhukar Shinde*)
• Raju Mavani as Yakub Lala (the character based on Ayub Lala)
• Arif Zakaria as Sadiq (news reporter) (character based on Iqbal Naatiq)
• Soni Razdan as Manya's mother
• Pankaj Kalra as Saeed Batla
• Karan Patel as Jamal (Bhatkar's bodyguard) (fictional)
• Vineet Sharma as Bhargav Surve
• Raju Kher as Inspector Ambolkar (the character based on Inspector E. S. Dabholkar)
• Akbar Khan as Haji Maqsood (character based on Haji Mastan) (cameo)
• Siddhanth Kapoor as Gyancho (the character based on Vishnu Patil)
• Ranjeet as Bhatkar Dada
• Chetan Hansraj as Potya (the character based on Suhas Bhatkar)
• Sanjeev Chadda as Veera (the character based on Uday Shetty)
• Shaji Chaudhary as Aurangzeb Mastan

Special appearances

• Jackie Shroff as Police Commissioner (fictional) (uncredited)
• Sunny Leone as Laila in the item number "Laila"
• Priyanka Chopra in the item number "Babli Badmaash" (uncredited)
• Sophie Choudry in the item number "Aala Re Aala"

Controversy

Director Sanjay Gupta knew the consequences of using Dawood Ibrahim's real name while shooting the film, but he carried on with Sonu Sood being addressed as "Dilawar Imtiaz" in the film. On 27 January 2013, Balaji Motion Pictures 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, Anand Raaj Anand, Meet Bros Anjjan 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. ::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. 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 .

Future

Director Sanjay Gupta has stated his plans to make the third installment to the franchise, Shootout at Byculla based on the JJ Hospital shootout in 1992 by Dawood Ibrahim's D Company against the Arun Gawli gang for the latter's killing of Ibrahim's brother-in-law Ismail Parkar (the husband of Haseena Parkar). He has also said that he will restart his movie Alibaug, starring Sunny Deol, Govinda Ahuja, Emraan Hashmi and turn it into the third sequel of the Shootout film series. Also, actors Abhishek Bachchan, Shabir Ahluwalia and John Abraham have been rumoured to star alongside each other. Abraham will portray a real encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar. The project is currently untitled, but it has been reported to be an "epic revenge saga".

References

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