AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Wordiezett So much average

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Tejas Nair So they are making a sequel & I watched the prequel first to have that flow. I am impressed by Apoorva Lakhia & Sanjay Gupta for creating a very good thriller plot. Do not listen to these IMDb board members, they seriously despise Bollywood movies.Set in the 90s, the drama involving gangsters & Mumbai Police is a very fine watch and when it reaches the crescendo, the enjoyment triples. Performances are great by the whole cast & specially by Vivek Oberoi. Music is chunky & screenplay is amazing with special mention to the scene where it all the gangsters are involved with different policemen. Simply superb!If you are a die-hard action fan, go for it, because this one has cylinder explosions, gun fires & RPG.Can be watched with a typical Indian family? NOProfanity: Strong | Sex: No | Nudity: Mild | Violence: Infinity | Gore: Infinity | Smoking: Strong | Alcohol: Critical | Drugs: No | Vulgarity: Mild Traumatizing Factor: Critical

Sherazade In a nutshell, it was very nearly perfect but as with most Bollywood films somewhere in between, something went horribly wrong. The good thing about Shootout at Lokhandwala is that it is very engaging. It grips the audience from its very solemn beginning until the last bullet is fired at the very end. That plus the fact that there were some very memorable performances in the film. But before I dive into that, let me just give you a quick background regarding the film itself, which is basically that the film is a fictional account of a now very infamous shootout between Mumbai police (specifically the now defunct ATS - Anti Terrorist Squad which can be likened to America's SWAT team) and a pack of goons in 1991. The film is told from the perspective of the three main officers involved with the decision making on that now infamous day (characters played by Sanjay Dutt, Arbaaz Khan & Suneil Shetty) as they related their story to their lawyer (Amitabh Bachchan) who is about to defend them in court.Now onto the great performances starting with Vivek Oberoi. Now what can be said about this guy that hasn't already been said when he brought the house down with his breakout performance in Company? Here Oberoi takes it up a notch as the goon leader Maya Dolas, an outlaw since age nine when he saved his mother the grips of domestic violence by stabbing his abusive father to death. Oberoi has a penchant for playing bad guys and playing them to the very bone. In two words, Oberoi was "very good" in this film. Suniel Shetty and Amitabh Bachchan were almost too comfortable in their respective roles as officer as advocate but one cannot blame them too much as their roles were perhaps a tad-bit too basic considering the roles these two men have essayed in their impressive Bollywood careers. Amrita Singh shows that she is not to be forgotten with a most unforgettable role as Maya's feisty mother. While all the female roles in this film were severely underwritten, Singh managed to emblazon her character with such dynamic cinematic presence. I really enjoyed her performance as a force to be reckoned with. Blink and you'll miss Rakhi Sawant's cameo as herself, Abhishek Bachchan as a legendarily foolish cop, blink twice and you'll miss Dia Mirza's token pretty reporter role as well. The film is jammed packed with a who is who list of heavy hitters but somehow it still failed at the box office. Perhaps due to the strong language and gory violence, just take your pick. Very good as well is the film's soundtrack (a special applause goes out to the writers for fitting two item numbers into such an action packed drama) which would have been perfect except for the horribly unforgivable 'Ganpat' which has the pack of goons singing and dancing on tables bragging about their way of life and controlling the likes of Bipasha Basu and Aishwarya Rai. Now if that not only sounds wrong, I think someone should have asked the writers if they somehow forgot that this was based on real life events? Stick to the script and stop getting carried away. Aishwarya Rai wasn't even famous in 1991! She was a 17-year-old unknown model, hello! Anyway, let us be thankful that they didn't picturise the part of the song pertaining to "Aishwarya Rai" on Oberoi's character. Sheesh! Other great performances include Rohit Roy as Fattu, Sanjay Dutt as Shamsher Khan & Arbaaz Khan Javeen Shaikh. If you can take the sight of Bollywood style gore, bad language and a shaky script, then I recommend that you see this film. B-

virindra Ik like movies of Vivek Oberoi. In this movie, there is a war between police officers (Sanjay Dutt, Arbaaz Khan and Sunil Shetty) and underworld gang members (Vivek Oberoi, Tusshar Kapoor). Amitabh Bachchan is the lawyer of the policemen, who made a shootout at Lokhandwala to get the gangsters.Sanjay Dutt is a magnificent actor. Vivek Oberoi was good, but a little over the top. And now comes the big disappointment of the movie; Tusshar Kapoor. What was this? A skinny guy, not convincingly at all, tries to be a crook. It was hilarious! I liked Jeetendra's movies in the past, but I don't like the acting of his son. In this movies Tusshar plays between the best actors of Bollywood, and even then it is not worth watching.Arbaaz Khan is not worth mentioning at all. He's just an average actor. The story wasn't great. It's same all we have seen before. It's supposed to be an exciting movie, with a lot of action, and now and then there is a song out of nothing. I did not like this movie, at all.

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!!