SHOOTOUT AT WADALA: Avoid it and feel blessed.

What could be the bigger irony that Bollywood has come up with release of a film like SHOOTOUT AT WADALA on the same day; Indian cinema got its first film released? It's been 100 years now...and we still believe in such regressive product.

Sanjay Gupta's obsession with underworld is not concealed to anyone whoever is familiar with his name. But with SHOOTOUT AT WADALA, he stinks like rotten vegetables more, than just sticking to his love. It's a male chauvinist film that relies completely on exhibition of bare body in irrelevance to genders, showcasing muscle power in slow motion, hammering action sequences with forcibly breaking glasses- screeching sound, glorifying the negatives, unapologetic foul-mouthed characters, titillating portrayal of women as sex symbols...and what not! 

Victimized by police, Manya surve- allegedly a sincere student is now force-fit into the pit of crime, only to face the deadly hollows of rivalry with the uprising D-gang and some fearless men in uniforms...the plot sounds good but it ends where it hasn’t even begin from. 

Based partly on S. Hussain zaidi's book on the first encounter ever in history by Mumbai police, the film rather than documenting the facts, decides to create 'ho-halla' over star values and item numbers on regular intervals in the name of entertainment...that too in its loudest & worst form. You never feel for Manya Surve once, even when just before end credits, screen reads, "Manya got 78% marks with distinction in his academics the day he got arrested." I seriously doubt if Sanjay Gupta has really read or kept Zaidi's book in question on his film set to bring some authenticity to the story line.

With 150 min of 'hard to sit through' duration and low-IQ'd dialogues that if I could write any of them here, it would have more stars than the whole movie gets from me. It is a total waste of your money and time. We have seen much better underworld dramas in Bollywood in the past; this is nowhere close to any of them. Avoid it and feel blessed. ** [2/5]

P.S. This film sees debut of Siddhant Kapoor, son of the veteran Shakti Kapoor…and all I can say about his acting and appearance is that “jhelne ke liye ek hi shakti kapoor kafi the, aap kyun aa gaye??”