Shootout At Wadala Movie Reviews

Gangster flicks -- especially the ones depicting the underbelly of Mumbai -- aren't new. Films like DEEWAAR [Yash Chopra], PARINDA [Vidhu Vinod Chopra], AGNEEPATH [Mukul S. Anand], DAYAVAN [Feroz Khan], SATYA [Ramgopal Varma], COMPANY [Ramgopal Varma], VAASTAV [Mahesh Manjrekar], GANGSTER [Anurag Basu], SHOOTOUT AT LOKHANDWALA [Apoorva Lakhia] and ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI [Milan Luthria] have left an indelible impression

You may not like this film if don’t have the appetite for blood and gore.

Based on the life of the 80s’ gangster Manya Surve, the film’s script follows the pattern of reality. A kind, loving and honest man entangles himself in the garb of his criminal brother’s activities by being party to a murder. Surviving the intoxicating and menacing world of jail during imprisonment, Surve learns to play his trump right. Befriending, a co-inmate Munir, he flees from jail. After refusing to bow down as an aide to strong Gangsters

Let go of all your snobbish inhibitions. Go watch ‘Shootout At Wadala’ at a single screen theatre this weekend… you won’t be disappointed. Three stars for the film and an extra half for Zaveri’s dialogues from me for Manya Surve’s unforgettable resurrection!

Aha there goes the camera, ogling at the ample assets of Ms Sunny Leone. Then there’s Priyanka Chopra, all blingy with micro-light-bulbs a la Amitabh Bachchan in Yaarana. And the third item gal, Sophie Choudhary, breaks into a boogie which is about as exciting as a punctured tyre. But then what would entertainment be without dollops of vulgarity? And of course do be prepared for unchecked violence since the Sanjay Gupta-helmed Shootout at Wadala

Guns, gore and blasts. Toss the item bombs into the mix and you have the good old seeti bajaao stuff going. Shootout At Wadala (SAW) marking the return of director Sanjay Gupta does not reveal much ambition beyond pleasuring the larger audience with a loud spectacle of sex and violence, but it works. The film borrows from S. Hussain Zaidi's book Dongri To Dubai to account the Mumbai police force's first recorded encounter killing - of gangster Manya Surve

Balaji and Sanjay Gupta on screen shoot out about the first encounter killing of a gangster in Mumbai succeeds in providing John Abraham his finest hours of action on screen and is a crowd pleaser but somehow this ultra-violent mobster flick fails to give any new spin to Sanjay Gupta's credentials as a filmmaker making it somewhat short of befitting booking for its B-town mobster filmsettings like Parinda, Satya, or Balaji's own Once Upon a Time in Mumbai

Review: ”Is sheher ka baap hai Manya Surve”, John Abraham exclaims in the movie which could be the the quintessential dialogue of the......

Another thriller about cops and goons set in the Mumbai underworld? Yes, pretty much so. But Shootout at Wadala is more than just a series of action scenes strung together with the purpose of revealing the many dangers that lurk in mafia land. As far as the plot goes, the film does not proffer much that has not been seen before. But director Sanjay Gupta brings a degree of flair and finesse to the table and gives the hackneyed and violent story

The film is generally entertaining without attaining the sort of innate quality that could attract favourable comparisons with Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya and Company or Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parinda. But that could hardly be a reason to write off the film.

A gangster runs into a police station, both his arms lopped off by a rival wielding a butcher's knife. Another goon is held down as his skull is pushed through an ice-crusher. A third, tied to a chair, is run over by a speeding car in reverse. The brutality is relentless in Sanjay Gupta's 'Shootout at Wadala', a saga about the rise and fall of dreaded Mumbai gangster Manya Surve (John Abraham) in the 1970s, and his subsequent death in 1982

The dialogue, smutty and excessive, is poured heavily upon everything. Not as much bang for my buck as I would have liked.

Save for a few lucky shots, Shootout At Wadala takes bullets in the arm, legs and shoulder to die a painful death. The absence of Sanjay Dutt’s ACP Shamsher Khan and Vivek Oberoi’s Maya Dolas is clearly felt as early as 20 minutes into the film. The new ACP saab, Ishaque Bagwan (Anil Kapoor), has as much idea of encounter killings as a teetotaller of the booze cabinet. And the wannabe baap of Mumbai, Manya Surve (John Abraham), is all huff-puff

Shootout At Wadala fails on all counts