Movie Review - Shootout at Wadala

Movie Review - Shootout at Wadala


Release date – 3'rd May 2013 

One Word which describes the film –Triple A

Genre – Action / Crime
 
Story - Sanjay Gupta , Hussain Zaidi ( Dongri to Dubai )

Music – Anu Malik , Mustafa Zahid , Anand Raj Anand , Nadeem Saifi , Anjjan Meet

Producer -  Sanjay Gupta , Anuradha Gupta ,Ekta Kapoor , Shobha Kapoor

Direction - Sanjay Gupta

Cast - John Abraham , Kangna Ranaut , Anil Kapoor , Tusshar Kapoor , Sonu Sood , Manoj Bajpai , Mahesh Manjrekar , Ronit Roy

Budget – 40 crores (approximately)

Review - 

Sanjay Gupta is known for his dark thrillers { Kaante (2002),Musafir (2004) ,  Zinda (2005) } but this time he has come up with a film so full of violence , cuss words and sex that it can be considered as Bollywood's answer to XXX Films.

This movie is based on the  Hussain Zaidi's book "Dongri to Dubai", the film's plot centers around the rise of international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and his rivalry with gangster Manya SurveThis movie is based on the  Hussain Zaidi's book "Dongri to Dubai", the film's plot centers around the rise of international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and his rivalry with gangster Manya Surve. The film is mainly focuses on the first ever police encounter and outlines the gang wars as it culminates into a three-way epic face-off between the gangsters,  Manya Surve , Haskar brothers and Mumbai police.Wherein  Manya Surve was shot dead, This incident  took place at the junction next to Dr. Ambedkar college, Wadala, Mumbai on 11 January 1982.Thus the name ‘ShootOut at wadala’.

Sanjay Gupta who has returned to direction after 8 years has left no stone unturned to make this film a commercial hit. He even took the creative liberty to use the real names involved in the incident to his characters.

The main strength of the film is it's powerful dialogues written by Milan Zaveri . Every character has a couple of lines which make the audience whistle and clap for them .

John Abraham, as the main protagonist of the film gets the best dialogues , best action sequences and the chance to romance the sole heroine in the film Kangana Ranaut . Though in the start his dialogue delivery is flat but as he works on building his body in the prison there is also some improvement in his acting. So there are actually claps from the audience when he says 'haddi se lekar kanoon tak, sab todta hoon' 

Manoj Bajpai and Sonu Sood are perfect for the role of  Haskar brothers. They represent style and power with hidden cruelity which is shown when they kill another gangster with fruit juicer.

Anil Kapoor as the police officer  who wants to get the city rid of gangsters has given an action  packed performance .He looks fit and smart and makes us wish there were more police officers like him in real life.

Sanjay Gupta's passion for perfection can be seen when he spends over Rs 2 crores only on shooting one sequence featuring an old BEST bus from the 70s. “The sequence would have cost us under under a crore, but we had to get a vintage bus which was not available and even when we managed to get one, it wasn’t allowed to enter Mumbai city. Because of that we had to shoot the sequence outside the city, which tripled our budget and we ended up spending more than Rs 2.6 crore,” said Gupta in an interview.

There are  three  item songs, where  Sunny Leone , Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Choudhry  seem to compete with each other in showing the maximum cleavage and doing the most provocative steps.

Rating - 2.5 out of 5

Best  Dialogue – 

' Baadshah ki gali mein aake uska pata nahin poochhte. Ghulamo ke jhuke hue sar khud ba khud raasta bata dete hain.'

Verdict-

In a  line if you are over 18 and like gangster flicks there is no reason for you to avoid this film.
Good one time theater watch .

Review - Sona Spa

REVIEW - SONA SPA

Director: Makarand Deshpande
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Writer: Makarand Deshpande

Producer: Madan Paliwal

Cast & Crew: Naseeruddin Shah, Aahana Kumrah, Shruti Vyas, Pooja Pradhan , Vineet Sharma, Romi Jaispal and Nivedita Bhattacharya

Release Date: Mar 22, 2013




Review -  The story revolves around Sona Spa , a place where people hire someone else to sleep for themselves.These sleep workers sleep, for Rs. 2,500 per hour, and dream — this takes us to the regions of men’s lives, urges and fantasies.so while the client continue with his routine,  sleep worker sleeps for him and he feel rejuvenated and fresh?

Rucha (Shruti Vyas) and Ritu (Aahana Kumrah) both newcomers join Sona Spa in the hope of sleeping for their dear ones!  Rucha wants to sleep for her wealthy father who doesn’t get sleep since her mother’s death and is dance bar zombie and Ritu wants to sleep for her sister who’s equally traumatized after her mother and brother’s death. Rucha’s client includes Mr. Choksi (Romi Jaispal), a rich man who doesn’t get sleep while Ritu’s client is an undercover cop.

Sona Spa has a senior sleeper as well, Meenakshi (Nivedita Bhattacharya). A former prostitute, she no longer sleepswith her clients, but sleeps for them.

The first half deals with the dreams and fantasies of the clients of sona spa, Mr Choksi's sexual fantasies, his illicit extramarital affairs and violent scenes.It has some abusive dialouges and a couple of scenes with cross-dressing.

The second half deals with the two , Rucha and Ritu having metamorphosed phase and deals with their personal life problems due to the clients dreams troubling them.

The movie is pretty much shown in the trailer.Nothing new apart from it.The story has some  interesting premise but the director was not able to fetch audience interest. 

As far as the actor’s performances are concerned, Naseeruddin Shah As Baba Dayanand hardly had any much to do, he is televised avatar .Aahana Kumrah did a brilliant job and gave full justice to her role. Nivedita Bhattacharya as Minakshi had some good dialogues and she too leaves a mark as an actress.Overall, the Actors picked by Makarand Despande had given some matured level of acting, I hope these so called big star of bollywood can perform at-least 20% of what these new comers had done. Hatsoff to the casting.

Makarand Deshpande as a director and writer disappointed.Cinematography is worse.

For all those who expected an 'Hatke' film, sorry people, the film is far from even being a thriller and is merely a sleazy fest and will disturb your movie watching appetite  After hearing of the play’s success one hoped the film would repeat history but maybe not.

Best Dialogue -“Hum neend ka business karte hai, Hum neend ka business karte hai”

Rating - 1 out of 5

Verdict - Ignorance is Bliss.Better to sleep for yourself and save your time and money.