Shootout at Lokhandwala is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film[2] directed and co-written by Apoorva Lakhia and co-written and co-produced by Sanjay Gupta, with Ekta Kapoor serving as producer and Suresh Nair serving as writer. Based on the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout, a real-life gun battle between gangsters and the Mumbai Police, it stars Amitabh Bachchan,Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Rohit Roy, Aditya Lakhia, and Shabbir Ahluwalia in pivotal roles.
Dhingra asks why Khan felt he had to do this. Khan explains that following Operation Blue Star in 1984, several Sikh terrorists fled to Mumbai and began establishing a base in the city. They engaged in violence, extortion, and other subversive tactics to grow their operations. The film flashes back to show Sub-Inspector Mhatre (Abhishek Bachchan), a very brave officer and disciple of Khan, pursuing and subsequently getting shot down by a group of Sikh terrorists. Khan is deeply frustrated when the Mumbai police, mired in internal bureaucracy and corruption, fail to act. He obtains clearance from police commissioner Krishnamurthy (played by the real A. A. Khan) and sets out after the militants. Khan asks Meeta (Diya Mirza) to cover the incident so as to deter future terrorists. True to Khan's words, he successfully "encounters" (it indicates summarily gunning down criminals; extrajudicial killings is the term accepted internationally) the terrorists who shot PSI Mhatre. (As per A. A. Khan, the encounter with Khalistani extremists was more dangerous and tough than the Lokhandwala Complex shootout.)
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The 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout was a gunbattle that occurred on 16 November 1991 at the Lokhandwala Complex, Mumbai, between seven gangsters led by Maya Dolas and members of the Mumbai Police and the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) led by the then Additional Commissioner of Police, A. A. Khan. The four-hour-long shootout was termed as India's "first daylight encounter" and was videographed and conducted in full view of the public.[1][2][3] It ended in the deaths of all seven gangsters, including Maya Dolas, Dilip Buwa and Anil Pawar.
After Joshi's murder, Dolas later broke out of the Ashok Joshi gang, and formed his own gang. He then convinced notorious Joshi gang sharpshooter Dilip Buwa to switch sides and together on 17 September 1989, they led a stealth attack against the Joshi gang in Kanjurmarg, in which five people were killed. This brought them into favour with Ibrahim, who was gunning for the Joshi gang after the killing of his pointman Satish Raje.[5] Dolas and Buwa were a feared duo and soon began a steady rise within the ranks of the D-Company.[5] They also conducted extortion activities on Ibrahim's behalf. However, they were also fugitives on the run, with ongoing arrest warrants for them. Dolas, had in fact escaped from prison a few years prior to the shootout.[6]
News and current affairs video magazine Newstrack captured the entire shootout live in 1991.[7] According to the former Additional Commissioner of Police A. A. Khan, the Anti-Terrorism Squad received a tip-off from a police informer that Dolas and his gang were hiding in the A wing, flats no. 002 and 003 in the Swati building at the Lokhandwala Complex, a posh upper middle class residential area. The informer reported that they were armed and were waiting for a few builders who would be coming in the evening. The apartment in which they were hiding belonged to Gopal Rajwani, a fugitive gangster from Ulhasnagar and associate of Ibrahim.[2] The ATS formed three teams for the task of arresting the fugitives and taking them into custody. One was for reconnaissance, while the other two cordoned off the spot.[2]
Khan used the loudspeakers to request residents to go to the kitchen and lie on the floor, to avoid accidentally getting hit by a stray bullet. He also asked the gangsters to surrender, even when half the force was surrounding the building. The gangsters refused to surrender and responded with bullets and profanities. In the ensuing shootout, the police used 450 rounds of ammunition. Every other wall on all sides of the building was rained heavily with bullets. At the end, all seven gangsters were killed, with the last gangster being shot down at the terrace of Swati building.[2] Although post-shootout media coverage made out Dolas to be the main shooter, according to Khan, in reality it was Buwa. Khan stated that Dolas just kept hurling abuses from inside the building, while the real bullets were being pumped by Buwa:[2].mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}
Khan dismissed the allegations as ridiculous, claiming that Dolas and the others were in no mood to surrender. He asserted that the operation was videographed and it was conducted in full view of the public. He further stated that a public interest litigation claiming that the encounter was stage-managed was dismissed by the Bombay High Court. The court even dubbed it "vexatious litigation".[1] He also justified the shootout, by stating that it had a demoralising effect on the Bombay underworld. In the aftermath of the Lokhandwala encounter, three dreaded shooters fled the city. While Subash Sawant and Subash Singh Thakur fled to Nepal, Anil Parab fled to Dubai.[2]
While the Lokhandwala shootout made Khan famous, he later faced criticism about the way he handled the Bombay riots under his jurisdiction. The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena protested his alleged partisan attitude towards their workers in the riots. In 1995, when the BJP-Shiv Sena government came to power in Maharashtra, Khan's promotion to the rank of Additional Director General of Police was stalled and he was transferred to Nagpur.[3] Frustrated at this insignificant posting, Khan retired and set up a security agency in 1996, which his son now runs.[6] He also became a politician and joined the Janata Dal, with whom he stood elections in the Mumbai North-west constituency in 1998.[3]
The infamous shootout was immortalised in the 2007 film Shootout at Lokhandwala, starring Sanjay Dutt as ACP Aftab Ahmed Khan, Vivek Oberoi as Maya Dolas, Tushar Kapoor as Dilip Buwa and Amrita Singh as Maya's mother Ratnaprabha Dolas. The movie also featured the real-life former ACP Aftab Ahmed Khan in a cameo role as his superior, the police commissioner Krishnamurthy.[9]
The film was however, criticised by underworld don Chotta Rajan on grounds that it grossly distorted the facts. In a May 2007 interview, he told the Times of India newspaper that the encounter was fake, while the film sought to depict it as an actual event. He stated that he would take it to the film's producer Sanjay Gupta, although when questioned, Gupta refused to pass any comment.[1] The film makers were unable to film the shootout scene in the real Swati building, a set worth 5 million was constructed in Film City which consisted of seven buildings and roads and trees and made it look exactly like how Swati building was in 1991.[10]
AK-47 rifles are frequently used in the movie, first by Sikh terrorists who have turned to crime, and later by the gangsters and Mumbai police officers when the shootout at Lokhandwala occurs. As with the SMLEs, the strange proportions of the weapon (such as the thinner magazine) indicate that the Kalashnikovs are probably .22LR replicas rather than the real thing.
Recalling the shootout, he says, "Maya was abusing me a lot when we went to capture him. I asked him to surrender, yet he abused me nonstop. He had escaped from police custody earlier and had created fear in the minds of people."
"I have had many encounters with gangsters but the Lokhandwala shootout became big because of the media," he says. "The most dangerous event of my life was the encounter killing of Khalistani terrorists in 1992. But that was never highlighted in a big way. Those terrorists were trained in Pakistan and it was a challenge to kill them."
While the Lokhandwala shootout made Khan wellknown, he later faced criticism about the way he handled the 1992-1993 Mumbai riots under his jurisdiction. The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena protested what they alleged was his partisan attitude towards their workers in the riots.
Sanjay Guptas Shootout at Lokhandwala promises realism to the core. Based on a real life shootout that happened in 1991, the film has real life characters of underworld don like Maya Dolas (Vivek Oberoi), Javed Hyderabadi (Arbaaz Khan) and inspector Aftab Ahmed Khan (Sanjay Dutt). Theres some more realism added to the film now. Item girl Rakhi Sawant is the latest addition to the cast. So which real life character is Rakhi Sawant playing in the film? She is playing an actress who was shooting at Lokhandwala on the day the encounter happened. The actress reportedly was a witness of the shootout. Rakhi affirms, I got a call from director Apoorva Lakhia when I was shooting for my film Buddha Mar Gaya in Hyderabad. They wanted me to play an actress who happens to be on the site of the shootout and becomes an eyewitness of the incident. Rakhi came down all the way from Hyderabad to Film City where the set of Lokhandwala has been erected. I shot for two days and then I went back to Hyderabad. It was great working with Apoorva and its a pleasure to be a part of a Sanjay Gupta project. Dia Mirza plays the role of a reporter, Mita Matu, who interviews my character of a film actress shooting at Lokhandwala. So now the big question! Who is the actress who was shooting that day at Lokhandwala? Rakhi Sawant spills the beans, It was Pooja Bedi. However Rakhis character in the film is not named as Pooja Bedi. I play myself in the film, claims Rakhi. So while the filmmakers are maintaining so much realism in the film, didnt they want Pooja Bedi to actually play her part in the film? When we checked with Pooja Bedi she revealed, Apoorva did approach me and wanted me to play the part. But its probably just a 10 second scene that didnt interest me. Ask Pooja any memories of the actual shootout and she recollects, I was shooting at Juhu and not Lokhandwala. A reporter called Minty Tejpal (brother of Tarun Tejpal from Tehelka) had come to interview me. When Minty was informed that a shootout was happening at Lokhandwala, he went straight off to the site of the shootout. So why are the makers showing that Pooja Bedi was shooting at Lokhandwala instead of Juhu? Perhaps to add more drama or may be to publicize the film, they feel the need to sensationalize and show that Pooja Bedi was also shooting at Lokhandwala. I dont know why has it become a point of great interest, complains Pooja. Pooja sounds a little upset by the way her name is being used to dramatize the whole incident in the film. My point is that if they want to be so realistic then why did they replace the real life character of Minty Tejpal with a female journalist played by Diya Mirza in the film. I dont know why a ten second interview is being made the highlight of a three hour film. It is ridiculous! I hope the film has more substance than that ten second interview. I guess they are over-dramatizing the whole incident. So finally we checked with director Apoorva Lakhia for his side of the story. Pooja is a very dear friend of mine, says Lakhia. So why not cast her for the role? Firstly because she was not in the country and secondly we also wanted to bring something new and bubbly feel to the character. Rakhi Sawant is a time bomb. She is damn funny in the film. Ask him on changing the gender of the journalist and Apoorva defends, There are a lot of elements that we have fictionalized in the film. The film already has so many male characters. Somewhere or the other we needed to have some females too. Or else who would have watched our film. Apoorva ends it on a funny note! be457b7860
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