Directed by : Sanjay Gupta
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301155/
Mujh mein hi khujli thi, itihaas badalne ki ...
Overdose of item songs, and a loose screenplay makes it a average movie despite some good performances. I didn't get the point of watching a dying Manya Surve (John Abraham) telling the story in flashback, along with the inspector ACP Afaaque (Anil Kapoor) telling his own story, quite comical it was.
Also, there is very less of Manya Surve when he changes from Manohar.. I expected there would be scenes where he would showcase how dangerous he is, but except for the bank robberies there aint much shown in that respect. Even the way they show the death of Zubair (Manoj Bajpayee), not sure about how it was in real.. but Manya wasn't brave enough to kill him openly ?
There were 2 ways that this movie would had been better.. one was keeping extra 15 minutes of Manohar story, maybe the transformation to Manya could had been shown in detail. Other way was, showing the Manya Surve's dominance over Bombay like he was someone every gangster as well as police had to be afraid of. For instance, the scene where Manya openly takes revenge from that police inspector, such scenes were far and few unfortunately.
The heavy dialoguebaazi doesn't help either, one should know how to use a particular aspect, and not overusing it. At times I felt like the characters are more keen on delivering out of the way dialogues rather than think about the current situation, specially the ones Anil Kapoor has in the movie. Also, what was about the all the characters putting goggles on, removing it, putting back again and again and again..
Except for Laila, rest 2 item songs were forced into the narrative. Sunny Leone did pretty well in that item song department, thankfully we were saved from her acting, with just a 2 min dialogue scene she has.
The final encounter scene was very well directed... though it was a dejavu of Gangster for the fact that Kangana does pretty much the same thing in that movie too. I didn't knew until this movie that Manya was the 1st gangster to be shot dead through a encounter.
Performance wise, John Abraham makes the most out of a role that had the potential to be his best till now, but not to be in the end. Sonu Sood also does pretty well in supporting role. Manoj Bajpayee is limited to 1-2 dialogues, 'baadshah ki gali mein aakar uska pata nahi poocha karte' being the best of lot. Rest actors are passable.
Overall, Shootout at Wadala is a total let down, some good action scenes and dialoguebaazi.. but it gets all too boring after a while.
Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301155/
Mujh mein hi khujli thi, itihaas badalne ki ...
Overdose of item songs, and a loose screenplay makes it a average movie despite some good performances. I didn't get the point of watching a dying Manya Surve (John Abraham) telling the story in flashback, along with the inspector ACP Afaaque (Anil Kapoor) telling his own story, quite comical it was.
Also, there is very less of Manya Surve when he changes from Manohar.. I expected there would be scenes where he would showcase how dangerous he is, but except for the bank robberies there aint much shown in that respect. Even the way they show the death of Zubair (Manoj Bajpayee), not sure about how it was in real.. but Manya wasn't brave enough to kill him openly ?
There were 2 ways that this movie would had been better.. one was keeping extra 15 minutes of Manohar story, maybe the transformation to Manya could had been shown in detail. Other way was, showing the Manya Surve's dominance over Bombay like he was someone every gangster as well as police had to be afraid of. For instance, the scene where Manya openly takes revenge from that police inspector, such scenes were far and few unfortunately.
The heavy dialoguebaazi doesn't help either, one should know how to use a particular aspect, and not overusing it. At times I felt like the characters are more keen on delivering out of the way dialogues rather than think about the current situation, specially the ones Anil Kapoor has in the movie. Also, what was about the all the characters putting goggles on, removing it, putting back again and again and again..
Except for Laila, rest 2 item songs were forced into the narrative. Sunny Leone did pretty well in that item song department, thankfully we were saved from her acting, with just a 2 min dialogue scene she has.
The final encounter scene was very well directed... though it was a dejavu of Gangster for the fact that Kangana does pretty much the same thing in that movie too. I didn't knew until this movie that Manya was the 1st gangster to be shot dead through a encounter.
Performance wise, John Abraham makes the most out of a role that had the potential to be his best till now, but not to be in the end. Sonu Sood also does pretty well in supporting role. Manoj Bajpayee is limited to 1-2 dialogues, 'baadshah ki gali mein aakar uska pata nahi poocha karte' being the best of lot. Rest actors are passable.
Overall, Shootout at Wadala is a total let down, some good action scenes and dialoguebaazi.. but it gets all too boring after a while.
Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE
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