Director Apurva Lakhia is surely in the hot seat and his “Shoot Out At Lokhandwala” is having the biggest publicity campaigns ever. The actors Suniel Shetty and Arbaz Khan even appeared as cops in a famous television series. So what is it about the film that is attracting so much attention? It is the incident from which it is inspired and also the actors that are doing the real life heroes.
Let’s take the quick peep into the incident that inspired such a big budget movie: “On a calm summer day in 1991, the bustling Lokhandwala Complex in Mumbai became a virtual war zone when ACP AA Khan opened fire on five underworld gangsters residing in a building in the area. This daylight encounter lasted six hours. Sanjay Dutt explains the incident in his words: “It was a very interesting incident that happened few years ago. When people spotted gangsters and called the police.”
And not the mention the mammoth star cast that has Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Tushar Kapoor and Dilip Buwa. Sanjay Dutt plays the dare devil ACP AA Khan and Vivek Oberoi dons the role of Maya Dolas the gangster who was encountered by the inimitable Khan. Suniel, Abhishek and Arbaaz are Dutt’s men and Tushar plays Vivek’s right hand.
The movie is huge and has been widely publicized. So let us see how does it fare at the box office this Friday the 24th.
