Shootout at Wadala

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Shootout at Wadala
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySanjay Gupta
Screenplay bySanjay Gupta
Sanjay Bhatia
Abhijit Deshpande
Milap Zaveri
(dialogue)
Story bySanjay Gupta
Hussain Zaidi
Based onDongri to Dubai
by Hussain Zaidi
Produced bySanjay Gupta
Anuradha Gupta
Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
StarringAnil Kapoor
John Abraham
Manoj Bajpayee
Tusshar Kapoor
Kangana Ranaut
Sonu Sood
Ronit Roy
Mahesh Manjrekar
Narrated byJohn Abraham
CinematographySameer Arya
Sanjay F. Gupta
Edited byBunty Nagi
Music bySongs:
Anu Malik
Mustafa Zahid
Anand Raj Anand
Meet Bros Anjaan
Background score:
Amar Mohile
Production
companies
Balaji Motion Pictures
White Feather Films
Distributed byBalaji Motion Pictures
White Feather Films
Release date
  • 1 May 2013 (2013-05-01) (India)
Running time
150 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹65 crore[2]
Box office₹82 crore[3][2]

Shootout at Wadala is a 2013 Indian action-crime film[4][1] 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.[5] 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 3 May 2013 and received mixed reviews from critics, It grossed over ₹82 crore (US$10 million) against a budget of ₹65 crore (US$8.1 million).

Plot[edit]

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 of his grades, Manya and his brother are arrested. Manya is publicly humiliated in the college by Inspector Ambolkar and end 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 eventually is challenged by Potya. Potya attacks him 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 Mastan gang. This leads to a fight between the Haskar brothers and Mastan gang. A truce is called by Haji Maqsood, which is short lived as 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, at first, he agrees when the police commissioner orders him to. The story comes to an end after the shootout and Manya's killing by police.

Cast[edit]

Special appearances

Controversy[edit]

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.[10] 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.[11]

Soundtrack[edit]

Shootout at Wadala
Soundtrack album by
Anu Malik, Meet Bros Anjjan, Mustafa Zahid and Anand Raaj Anand
Released19 March 2013
Recorded2013
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length49:26
LanguageHindi
LabelSony Music India
Anu Malik chronology
Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai
(2012) 		Shootout at Wadala
(2013)
Meet Bros Anjjan chronology
OMG – Oh My God!
(2012) 		Shootout at Wadala
(2013) 		Policegiri
(2013)
Mustafa Zahid chronology
Murder 3
(2013) 		Shootout at Wadala
(2013) 		Aashiqui 2
(2013)
Anand Raaj Anand chronology
Deewana Main Deewana
(2013) 		Shootout at Wadala
(2013) 		Zanjeer
(2013)
Singles from Shootout at Wadala
  1. "Babli Badmaash"
    Released: 14 March 2013
  2. "Aala Re Aala"
    Released: 24 April 2013
  3. "Laila"
    Released: 28 April 2013
  4. "Aye Manya"
    Released: 7 May 2013

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[edit]

No.TitleLyricsMusicArtist(s)Length
1."Aala Re Aala"Neelesh MisraAnu MalikSunidhi Chauhan, Mika Singh5:44
2."Laila"Sanjay GuptaAnand Raaj AnandMika Singh & Anand Raaj Anand3:36
3."Babli Badmaash"KumaarAnu MalikSunidhi Chauhan4:27
4."Ek Din Ke Liye" Anu MalikSunidhi Chauhan & Anu Malik0:48
5."Yeh Junoon" Mustafa ZahidMustafa Zahid4:52
6."Aye Manya" Meet Bros AnjjanAdnan Sami, Meet Bros Anjjan & Shaan4:56
7."Goli" Meet Bros AnjjanMeet Bros Anjjan, Sudesh Bhosle, Anil Kapoor & John Abraham4:08
8."Babli Badmaash (Remix by Gourav Das Gupta & Roshan Balu)" Anu MalikSunidhi Chauhan & Anu Malik4:47
9."Aala Re Aala (Remix by Gourav Das Gupta & Roshan Balu)" Anu MalikSunidhi Chauhan, Mika Singh & Anu Malik5:02
10."Laila (Remix by Gourav Das Gupta & Roshan Balu)" Anand Raaj AnandMika Singh & Anand Raj Anand3:27
11."Yeh Junoon (Remix by Mayur Sahani)" Mustafa ZahidMustafa Zahid4:01
12."Goli (Remix by Mayur Sahani)" Meet Bros AnjjanMeet Bros Anjjan, Sudesh Bhosle, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham3:38
Total length:49:26

Critical reception[edit]

The film received a mixed reception from critics and audiences.

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.
Review scores
Source Rating
Bollywood Hungama[12] link= alt=
Times of India[13]
Koimoi[14]
Zee News[15]
DNA India[16]
NDTV[17]
Yahoo![18]
IBN[19]
The Indian Express[20]
Rediff[21]

Box office[edit]

India[edit]

Shootout at Wadala had an opening of around 65% occupancy[22] and went on to collect ₹101.9 million (US$1.3 million) on first day.[23] After five days of release, the film had amassed a collection of ₹268.5 million (US$3.4 million).[24] The two-week domestic distributor share is ₹ 255.0 million approx.[3][25] The final total came out to be ₹820 million (US$10 million).[3][2]

Overseas[edit]

Shootout at Wadala collected $900,000 over its first weekend.[26] Its final overseas collection was US$1.625 million.[27]

Budget and marketing[edit]

Shootout at Wadala was made with a budget of ₹50 crore (US$6.3 million)[2] of production costs. The prints and marketing budget was ₹15 crore (US$1.9 million).

Pre-release business[edit]

Shootout at Wadala was released in 2013 in theaters across the country through AA Films.

Shootout at Wadala pre-release business
Territories and ancillary revenues Price
First weekend domestic (net) ₹28 crore (US$3.5 million)
Satellite rights with a TV channel ₹22 crore (US$2.8 million)
Overseas & home video rights with Eros International ₹5 crore (US$630,000)
Music rights (T-Series) ₹5 crore (US$630,000)
Total ₹75 crore (US$9.4 million)

 • These figures do not include Print and Advertising (P&A) costs.

Future[edit]

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".[28][29]

References[edit]

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