Shootout at Wadala
Shootout at Wadala is a 2013 Indian action-crime film written and directed by Sanjay Gupta. The film stars Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Manoj Bajpayee, Tusshar Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut and Sonu Sood. It is a prequel to the 2007 film Shootout at Lokhandwala. In the film, Manya, a diligent student, lands in prison for killing a gangster who attacked his brother, Bhargav, who eventually dies. Soon, Manya escapes jail and forms his own gang to seek revenge.
Based on the book Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia by Hussain Zaidi, the film dramatises the encounter by Bombay police in which gangster Manya Surve was shot dead. It took place at the junction adjacent to Dr. Ambedkar College, Wadala, Bombay on 11 January 1982.
Shootout at Wadala was released on 1 May 2013 and received mixed reviews from critics, It grossed over against a budget of.
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. 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. 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
- John Abraham as Manya Surve
- Manoj Bajpayee as Zubair Imtiaz Haksar
- Tusshar Kapoor as Sheikh Muhammad Yunus Munir
- Kangana Ranaut as Vidya Joshi
- Sonu Sood as Dilawar Imtiaz Haksar
- Ronit Roy as Inspector Raja Ambat
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Inspector Yashwanth Bhinde
- Raju Mavani as Yakub Lala
- Arif Zakaria as Sadiq
- Soni Razdan as Manya's mother
- Pankaj Kalra as Saeed Batla
- Karan Patel as Jamal
- Vineet Sharma as Bhargav Surve
- Raju Kher as Inspector Ambolkar
- Akbar Khan as Haji Maqsood
- Siddhanth Kapoor as Gyancho
- Ranjeet as Bhatkar Dada
- Chetan Hansraj as Potya
- Sanjeev Chadda as Veera
- Shaji Chaudhary as Aurangzeb Mastan
- Jackie Shroff as Police Commissioner
- Sunny Leone as Laila in the item number "Laila"
- Priyanka Chopra in the item number "Babli Badmaash"
- Sophie Choudry in the item number "Aala Re Aala"