
When someone is shot repeatedly, they may not die but their body will break out impressive disco dancing moves. No wonder he’s the only one who breaks a sweat while she looks dazed and confused for most of the film.Ħ. After some passionate groping, when it’s time to really up the ante, John Abraham’s Surve gets under the covers and does push-ups with his girlfriend (Kangana Ranaut) below him. Missionary position sex, at least when gangsters do it, really is a workout.

You could do tai chi classes in Pune’s Yerwada Jail.ĥ. If you’re looking for a murderer, he's the guy whose jaw juts out as though it’s trying escape the rest of his face.Ĥ. The bar had a dusty courtyard in which cowboys could have had shotgun duels, but since this was India and the ’80s, it became a parking lot festooned with Chinese paper lanterns.ģ. It had a bar called Horseshoe Bar, where dancers (who looked like they’d forgotten most of their belly dancing costume) danced on tables and trucks. There used to be a mysterious neighbourhood in Mumbai that looked like the set of an abandoned cowboy film. Everyone in Shootout at Wadala has the kind of tan that would make Snooki look natural.Ģ. In the 1980s, tanning was big business in Mumbai. Here are some of the things that Shootout at Wadala has taught me.ġ. From this we may deduce that director Sanjay Gupta’s film about Manya Surve, the first recorded victim of an ‘encounter’ with the Mumbai Police, is intended to be not just fun, but also educational. Hussain Zaidi’s book From Dongri to Dubai, about Mumbai’s underworld.

Instead of the usual disclaimer at the start of a film that the following feature is a fictional work, Shootout at Wadala begins with a notice that tells the audience that the film’s story is inspired by S.
