The police watch in frustration as the gang members they arrest bribe their way back onto the streets.Īn enterprising newspaperman suggests that the police employ sibling thugs the Haskar brothers - Zubair (Manoj Bajpai) and Dilawar (Sonu Sood) - to clean up Mastan’s gang. Just before Manya’s prison break, Mumbai was run by a ruthless gang of murderers and rapists lead by a man named Mastan. The action periodically returns to the present day so that Baaghran can recall events from his own perspective. Rather than settling for being underlings in someone else’s gang, they recruit members and form their own.
Manya quickly learns that an ability to instill fear is his best defense in jail.Įight years later, Manya and his crony, Munir (Tusshar Kapoor), escape prison.
In 1970, Manya was unfairly jailed for life as an accessory to a murder committed by his step-brother. As at-odds as the practice is with the rule of law, the film makes the case that both the police and Surve felt that circumstances left them with no good choices.Īs Manya (John Abraham) slowly bleeds to death in the back of a police van, he tells Officer Baaghran (Anil Kapoor) how his promising college career gave way to a life of crime. It was the first officially documented “encounter killing” by the Mumbai police, setting the stage for decades of unofficially sanctioned police murders of known gangsters. The film is based the real-life extrajudicial killing of mobster Manya Surve in 1982. Such is the opening of Shootout at Wadala, a thrilling action film that raises moral questions with no easy answers. One man is a gangster, the other the police officer who has mortally wounded the former. Two men reminisce about the circumstances that led them to abandon their idealistic principles for a more practical, cynical approach to morality.
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