John Abraham flaunts the most impressive musculature amongst the current crop of Bollywood heroes (he has his own shirtless moment with each gleaming well defined pack visible from a distance), but not the acting chops. Jackie Shroff shows up for a tiny cameo, and suddenly, seeing him and Anil Kapoor in one film, you are reminded of Parinda, the film which got gangsters back into vogue again.īut that is all the similarity there is. It's also good to have Anil Kapoor back amongst us. Bajpayee seems to be making the most of his second coming: he is clearly enjoying himself, as is Manjrekar, who plays a laconic cop. Some of the sequences leap off the screen, and the action is solid.
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This time around, it has Sanjay Gupta at the helm, and the director knows how to mount the big action scenes, and how to create maximum mayhem. Shootout At Wadala, based on S Hussan Zaidi's account of the rise of the mob in the Mumbai of the 70s, is a sequel to Shootout At Lokhandwala. And the fact that this genre is now feeling the weight of having been trod upon too often. In 2013, they seem like a tired device to hang an entire film on.
What stops it from becoming the film that it could have is an avalanche of dialogue, the sort of smart-alecky lines that sounded so right in the 70s. It has action, some of it explosive, but not madly new. Shootout At Wadala gives us a bunch of gangsters and cops, all trying very hard for coolth. And because there's nothing as cool as retro, in the right hands. Because I like the bang-bang stuff, when done well. Why would I want to watch yet another retro-gangster flick? Because I'm a sucker for gritty gangsters and sharp cops.
Cast: John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, Tusshar Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ronit Roy, Kangna Ranaut