Friday, 10 May 2013

Review of Shootout at Wadala


Release date – 3'rd May 2013 

One Word which describes the film – Triple A

Best  Dialogue
 – 
' Baadshah ki gali mein aake uska pata nahin poochhte. Ghulamo ke jhuke hue sar khud ba khud raasta bata dete hain.'

Genre – Action / Crime
 

Story - 
Sanjay Gupta , Hussain Zaidi ( Dongri to Dubai )

Music – Anu Malik , Mustafa Zahid , Anand Raj Anand , Nadeem Saifi , Anjjan Meet

Producer -  Sanjay Gupta , Anuradha Gupta ,Ekta Kapoor , Shobha Kapoor

Direction Sanjay Gupta

Budget – 40 crores (approximately)

Sanjay Gupta is known for his dark thrillers { Kaante (2002),Musafir (2004) ,  Zinda (2005) } but this time he has come up with a film so full of violence , cuss words and sex that it can be considered as Bollywood's answer to XXX Films.

The film is based on the first ever police encounter and outlines the gang wars as it culminates into a three-way epic face-off between the gangsters,  Manya Surve , Haskar brothers and Mumbai police.

Sanjay Gupta who has returned to direction after 8 years has left no stone unturned to make this film a commercial hit. 

The main strength of the film is it's powerful dialogues written by Milan Zaveri . Every character has a couple of lines which make the audience whistle and clap for them .

John Abraham, as the main protagonist of the film gets the best dialogues , best action sequences and the chance to romance the sole heroine in the film Kangana Ranaut . Though in the start his dialogue delivery is flat but as he works on building his body in the prison there is also some improvement in his acting. So there are actually claps from the audience when he says 'haddi se lekar kanoon tak, sab todta hoon' 


Manoj Bajpai and Sonu Sood are perfect for the role of  Haskar brothers. They represent style and power with hidden cruelity which is shown when they kill another gangster with a fruit juicer.


Anil Kapoor as the police officer  who wants to get the city rid of gangsters has given an action  packed performance .He looks fit and smart and makes us wish there were more police officers like him in real life.


Sanjay Gupta's passion for perfection can be seen when he spends over Rs 2 crores only on shooting one sequence featuring an old BEST bus from the 70s. “The sequence would have cost us under under a crore, but we had to get a vintage bus which was not available and even when we managed to get one, it wasn’t allowed to enter Mumbai city. Because of that we had to shoot the sequence outside the city, which tripled our budget and we ended up spending more than Rs 2.6 crore,” said Gupta in an interview.


There are  three  item songs, where  Sunny Leone , Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Choudhry  seem to compete with each other in showing the maximum cleavage and doing the most provocative steps.

In a  line if you are over 18 and like gangster flicks there is no reason for you to avoid this film.

Good one time theater watch .
Rank- 9 (out of the 26 films I have seen in 2013)



1 comment:

  1. I went to the picture with huge expectations and even spent money for Gold Class for the same and turned out a huge let down of a movie considering the bar raised by me that it will be awesome movie on lines of Satya & Company

    The picture was nothing but abusive language of BC and what not and also horrid rape scene with movement of body, what the hell was he making ? a porn movie ?

    Kangana i guessed agreed to play this role only to get loved and kissed by John it seems and was a win win situation for her as at drop of hat he was just kissing her just like Ranbir did in Rockstar to his heroine in 2nd half for some reason or other basis

    The Narration was flawed, 2nd half was too long just like the police van drive from wadala to sion hospital, it kept on going on and on and on

    John was good in the Movie , the dialogues as expected from Milap were the highlight of the movie

    The songs were sleazy and cheap and not a single chart buster song to sing too

    Picture collection is 47Cr in a week, so will surely recover money but not a hit any any standard and for sure a very average movie

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