Liakot Ali Shootout at Lokhandwala is a fantastic movie that is full of violence. The movie has many famous actors all in one movie. Amitabh Bachchan stars in a small role as the lawyer who is listening to what has happened. Abishek is in a 2 minute scene and both father son give a standard performance. Sanjay Dutt the main lead of this film gives a good performance as the Police officer. Sunil Shetty and Arbaaz Khan give decent performances as Police officers. Tusshar Kapoor is great as a gangster, and he even improves on his childish voice. The star of this movie has to be Vivek Oberoi who has delivers a Superb performance an Maya the deadly gangster. The film has many other actresses like Amrita Singh who did a good job as the hot headed mother. Aarti Chabria looks sexy in the song and I would like to play with that jism of hers like Tusshar does. Neha looks pretty kaash mein suhaag raat karta us ki saat.

dipsub25 Shoot Out at Lokhandwala (2007)Director: Apoorva Lakhia Writers: Apoorva Lakhia Suresh NairShoot Out At Lokhandwala , directed by Apporva Lakhia , seems to be perfectly successful in :a) Casting big names in Bollywood Film Industry(Amitab &Abhishek, duo, Sunil Shetty, Sanjay Dutt, Neha Dhupia, Arbaz Khan, Tushar Kapoor, Vivek Oberio, Rohit Roy ….. IS ANY ONE STILL LEFT OUT in BOOLY WOOD after this???b) Violence show c) Shoot out and police firingUnfortunately what it missed out perhaps completely is a) Any story base b) Music c) Character roles d) Simple movie making common sense & Logic e) Justification of any role to anyoneIts up to the pity audience what they prefer to see at last???This film right from the beginning tries to project that entire story is based on some real fact, though its begin with the old Sikh Terrorism in Punjab, still the director completely missed out to carry the theme till the end…. From terrorism by Punjab extremist to cheap road side Mumbai Supari killing.. all seems to be mixed and jumbled out completely the Apporva Lakhia, perhaps he and his team of script writer really never read and re-checked their own script even once ! all the whole they may be too busy with the unsuccessful effort to bring all big stars together rather than making the movie of any sense at all. Its really funny when it between he tries to show the incident and their description with year and dates etc.. ! those useless details can easily be omitted and the story line may be made more worth .Its crazy that Abhishek Bacchant tries to fight the AK47 carrying Sikh Terrorist with a single barrel pistol !!! and the poor chap gets killed! What the director wanted to prove??? And he does proves in the entire movie that in spite of full battalion of forces and police officers, with all the man-power and all, the ultimate decision is made again and again by the 1960 style hand to hand fighting !!!!!!! dam crazy nonsense !!The DCP and ACP of police has to go all by themselves to the culprits and fight with their hand ! whats the rest of the police force doing then??? And Sanjay Dutt enters the hideout in the last scene to make the fight , as if he is going to meet his waiting girl-friend !! instead of re-checking his (again note) Pistol, he sets his hair OK ! and enters the hideout !!! Is that anything worst direction than these???The Mumbai don who claims huge amounts as Supari from each business tycoons don't have even a cell phone??? Can you believe this,, so at the last scene the director makes each of the gang member to talk to their family using a land phone!!!! And that too the connection of the phone line is intact even when he showed about 5-10 minutes of severe shooting in that house by the Police just before that!!! Come-on Apoorva ! this is real kiddish!!!And so on , one after another plots are all severely faulty with absolutely no logic and common sense. Underworld kingpin Vivek Oberoi mom is so poor(even though her son makes so much money from Supari) that she was shown in ragged and she need to go all the way to a public booth to call her son???Amitabh was as usual over acted , and was really painful. Director in-between tried to justify the sentiments of the killers and tried to project them with humane value.. please if you don't know to direct films, that's your problems but please don't convey wrong message at all to the society. When Vivek Oberoi and Tushar Kapoor(Tussar was an absolute bogus selection for that role , he is too chocolate looking for that role!!) comes and threatens the colony peoples in one scene , then while going back they just for nothing , just like that shoots 2-3 innocent peoples , just for making some fear !! if that's is justified , what's the point in showing their sentiments at the end??The movie in a nutshell is absolutely scrape, the name of Lokhandwala shooting is absolutely misnomer with the entire movie scenes. Police force in India are shown to carry old rifles ! not even a AK47 was shown by even one officers!! And hand to hand fighting seems to be the ultimate decisive factor for the game !! There is no script at all ! to comment , and music doesn't exist. Acting was just too ordinary and many a place useless and misfit. There is no need to show the rich Urdu verse spoken Arbazz Khan trying to make Sunil Shetty make understand to propose someone! It's NOT NEEDED at all.Macho man Sunil Shetty cannot able to overcome the slim and medium built Tushar Kappoor! Gangsters visit the home of the police officers and threaten their families and just go away even when they know that these same officers are behind them! DOES THAT HAPPENS IN REALITY !! what Apoorva wants to show! How novel and great at those underworld peoples!! Anyway this film is an ideal example of " how worst can a film be made" which in spite of all great Bollywood actors and actress doesn't even has anything to give.. no message no lesson, no scene, no justification, no truth, no music and sure NO LOGIC and worst direction.Please don't make movies like this, there are better job that can be done, and all you need is to THINK , of course using your BRAIN!!

mevricks If you could remember a film named AATISH that was released in early nineties, you could also remember the name of the director. It was MR. SANJAY GUPTA. Since that movie, he has emerged as one of the intelligent director who also has that ability to perform the duties of a producer or an executive producer. Just like Spielberg!After a couple of disaster movies like JUNG that he did with his all time buddy SANJAY DUTT, he finally came out with the tense thriller, ZINDA that was very much based on OLDBOY, a 2003 Korean film. Not to forget the 2002 blockbuster KANTEE based on the legendary RESERVOIR DOGS. This was even better than the DOGS, only because of well written dialogs by a complete rookie MILAP ZAVERI, but still, the movie was a hit and was appreciated, so the glory to MR. GUPTA stands. Now, for the people who are not from India and don't know the Indian culture and political/social environment, here is something for them….FOR NON-INDIANS –Though, judging from the TV news, a person living in western country, mainly Europe or USA often concludes India as a very difficult place to live and a place of complete chaos. And very often, they are right. For example, I would like to refer to a survey that took place in the city of Surat where I live. As per that survey, there is currently one, I repeat ONE policeman per 1200 – repeat – twelve hundred citizens in the state/region. This data is shocking! Not even the people of western countries, but people here also wonder several times how this country is running. Imagine this scenario in any developed country, and that country would be in condition of civil war!But in complete contradiction to this, my country is normal. This fact is confusing for others, but still it remains.It is amazing how a POLICE FORCE, outnumbered to such an extent, is taking care of a such a huge law and order system. No wonder it is called FORCE… And a common man here is mostly afraid of the police, decides to stay away from them, and for the same reason, decides to stay away from the crime.This fact has a strong context to this film. In the early nineties, the city of Mumbai was a mess with gangs and the shootouts between these gangs on the roads were common. Countless innocent people lost their lives in these shootouts.Mumbai police, in those times, took some decisions and ATS – ANTI TERRORIST SQUADS were formed which killed more than 200 gangsters in the city in less than seven years. The methodology became popular as 'Encounter' and the policemen were nicknamed 'The Encounter Specialists'. It was simple. Instead of taking a hardcore gangster to justice, he was shot on place, murdered and then reported dead in encounter with police! As a result, the gang riots and shootouts declined in the city and today, the nineties are history. The city of Mumbai lives in peace today, and majority of the population is supporting the police.It was during these times, when Mahindra Dolas, popularly known as 'Maya' became one of the most feared and wanted gangster, and whatever efforts the ATS took in killing him are portrayed in this film. Much of the base for the script was from book SURRENDER by Additional Police Commissioner of Mumbai, Aftab Ahmed Khan, the then in charge of ATS. SANJUBABA plays his character in film. The director APURVA(APOORVA) LAKHIA has finally hit the mark after giving weak/flop films like 'Mumbai Se Aya Mera Dost' which was disaster on box office. His other flop with AMITABH BACHCHA was 'EK AJNABI', stolen from DENZEL WASHINGTON starer, . This time, thankfully, he has remained away from stealing plots from Hollywood movies and has worked on something original.The songs in movie are totally unnecessary. Aarti Chabaria looks impressive, but has done nothing which could be termed as acting. All she has done is exposed, just like she did in her other movies. But she looks beautiful for the first time in her entire carrier. I will give her that. Other ladies are wasted. No comments on them. Neha Dhupia's character was not at all required and her poor acting and not-so-impressive appearance has only slowed down the movie.TUSHAR KAPOOR, is brother of EKTA KAPOOR, one of the producers and has worked hard and tried to act well. He looks good too. Compare to his other films, in which it was terrible to watch him on the screen, this time he seems at least OK. Before this, he was only EKTA KAPOOR'S brother, and so, was an actor. He has acted for the first time. But he will always remain a pooor actor just like his father, jumping jack – Jeetendra.The movie has a gripping script and direction. The director has done a good job of keeping the pace of the film and the events are well edited. Camera moves only when necessary and has remained away from using camera gimmicks like Ekta Kapoor who is one of the producers.Music and background music are OK. In fact, on the second thought, they are worse and it looks that the music director has done nothing. Above all it is the story, the director, SANJAY GUPTA'S touch and SANJAY DUTT'S presence in the movie that makes it worth watching.My heartily good wishes to MR. LAKHIA. I hope he sticks to good scripts like this and stops the adoption from Hollywood movies.REGARDS, M.

springsunnywinter An amazing film that is based on true rumours although most films that are based on actual events are crap. Shootout at Lokhandwala was so well written & directed and had riveting performances from a first-rate cast, every actor did a fantastic job even Amitabh & Abhishek Bachchan in their special appearances. I never heard about the incident before and I don't know if it's true or not but the film is made so dark & sinister that gives the tensive mood also it is emotionally & psychologically thrilling, the whole movie is charged with pulse pounding suspense and seems like it's really happening. A Sanjay Gupta film but the director is Apoorva Lakhia the one who made Ek Ajnabee which was also good that's why I wanted to watch the movie because both of them are terrific filmmakers and the title is eye catching. Overall it is just great how they managed to make a film on a very simple story about five criminals in a flat surrounded by hundreds of policemen. Just a few more words about the cast:AMITABH BACHCHAN: Simply the number 1 in Bollywood.SANJAY DUTT: One of my favourite actors.SUNIEL SHETTY: No matter what role he doe's action or romantic it will suit him.ARBAAZ KHAN: Good actor but hardly appears in any film.VIVEIK OBEROI: Did really well as a bad guy after Company.TUSSHAR KAPOOR: Good to see him in action after so many romantic roles.DIA MIRZA: Soooooooooo beautiful that I don't need to say anything else about her.NEHA DHUPIA: Her best performance will always be in Qayamat.ABHISHEK BACHCHAN: Doing really well now keep up the good work.