Watching Shootout at Lokhandwala is cruel punishment for Bollywood fans.
By golly, we haven’t seen such a juvenile, amateurish gangster movie - either Bollywood or Hollywood - in 45 years.
Shootout at Lokhandwala’s director Apoorva Lakhia has accomplished a feat that we thought was impossible. Lakhia has made a movie worse than his previous disaster Ek Ajnabee (a crude copy of the 2004 Denzel Washington-Dakota Fanning movie Man on Fire). Bravo, Lakhia! Way to go.
Featuring the ex-junkie and real-life criminal Sanjay Dutt, a bunch of B-grade Bollywood flops like Viveik Oberoi and Suniel Shetty and C-grade misfits such as Tusshar Kapoor and Neha Dhupia, Shootout at Lokhandwala is a film that’s crude in conception, clumsy in execution and crass in action.
Shootout at Lokhandwala was released on May 25, 2007 just as Sanjay Dutt is about to be sentenced for illegal possesion of deadly weapons.
Much is wrong with Shootout at Lokhandwala.
The gangsters Maya (Viveik Oberoi), Bhua (Tusshar Kapoor) et al are not fear-inspiring, the songs not bewitching, the action scenes not thrilling and in their angst the cops just not convincing. As a result, the narrative is seldom gripping.
For the hapless viewer caught in the crossfire of the various bubbleheads involved in the making of Shootout at Lokhandwala, the overall effect of this repellent farce is plain agonizing.
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