

While the heavy dose of action, violence, bloodshed and gore will appeal greatly to the single-screen cinema audience, it will not be equally lapped up by the multiplex-frequenting audience. Also, there are just too many characters in the film, adding to the confusion. There is nothing wrong in showing the achievements of the principled police officer but the way the screenplay is structured (in flashback), the relevance of the police inspector’s feats is not very clear. This confuses the audience as the drama of Aafaque’s encounters before he meets Manya seem irrelevant. Probably the biggest drawback of the screenplay is that it oscillates between the events in Manya’s life and those in Aafaque’s life before Manya even met Aafaque. The drama is unable to conclusively establish who the hero is – is it Manya or Zubair or Dilawar or Aafaque? The rise of Manya in the underworld is not very well-established as a result of which he doesn’t appear as too much of a threat to Zubair and Dilawar. Hussain Zaidi’s story is quite interesting but there is an inherent problem in the screenplay written by Sanjay Gupta, Abhijeet Deshpande and Sanjay Bhatia. Hussain Zaidi’s book, Dongri To Dubai: Six Decades Of The Mumbai Mafia. What happens in the end? Does Manya kill Dilawar or does Dilawar avenge his elder brother’s murder by eliminating Manya? Or does Dilawar join forces with the police to wipe out Manya? Is it that Manya and the police join hands to kill Dilawar? Does the police succeed in wiping out Manya? Or does inspector Aafaque sympathise with Manya? He also grievously injures Munir for the same reason. Dilawar is now thirsting for Manya’s blood and kills Manya’s accomplice, Gyancho (Siddhanth Kapoor), when he refuses to reveal Manya’s whereabouts. Working for Sadiq are Zubair Imtiaz Haksar (Manoj Bajpayee) and his younger brother, Dilawar Imtiaz Haksar (Sonu Sood), two underworld dons.Īs the drama progresses, Manya rubs Zubair and Dilawar the wrong way and one fine day, murders Zubair. The gang has Sadiq (Arif Zakaria), editor of a newspaper, murdered because he exposes Yakub and Batla.

Yakub and Batla are part of the Mastan gang. The drama also shows the achievements of Aafaque who arrests Yakub Lala (Raju Mawani) and Sayed Batla (Pankaj Kalra) for killing a man and raping his wife while they were honeymooning. Police officer Aafaque Baagraan (Anil Kapoor) is after Manya and he is assisted by police officers Rajan Ambat (Ronit Roy) and Bhende (Mahesh Manjrekar). Manya kills a few people including the one (Ranjeet) responsible for the state in which he is, and police officer Ambolkar (Raju Kher) who had very mercilessly arrested the brothers and humiliated Manya. One day, Manya and Munir escape from jail. Yunus Munir (Tusshar Kapoor) in the prison and trains under another undertrial who is a body-builder (Sanjeev Chadha).

This leads to the arrest of Manya and Bhargav and they both are imprisoned for life. Even while Manya is saving Bhargav, he (Bhargav) kills one of the attackers. His step-brother, Bhargav (Vinit Sharma), a gangster, is attacked by goons and although Manya is not keen on saving him, Vidya forces him to go to his rescue. Manohar alias Manya Surve (John Abraham) is a bright and principled college-going student who loves Vidya (Kangana Ranaut). and White Feather Films’ Shootout At Wadala ( A) is a gangster film.
