Shootout... what a load of juvenile crap!

Obviously, this is gonna be scathing.

I confess, I don't know what made me do this, but I saw "Shootout at Lokhandwala" on a saturday night. I agree I could've made better use of this rare free saturday evening in Pune.

2 words, the movie 'is shit'.

And now more words to follow.

Purportedly, its based on 'True Rumors', whatever that's supposed to mean???!!! So it starts of as a tale of 5 goons (and trust me, they are nothing more than that, they are NOT Indian robin hoods), and 3 cops out to gun 'em. Simple.

The entire portrayal is atrociuos. ATS head Khan begins by descibing how he recruited the squad. Why? I don't know. Abhishek Bacchan gets killed trying to nab a sikh seperatist terrorist. So the ATS gets created. wow! And then he goes about recruiting down-and-out non-believer cops and other 'rugged' fellas for his baby, the ATS. Am I impressed! Then they go on to tell us about how ruthless and trigger happy the Dolas gang is, and why they should be damn well killed.

Eventually, Amitabh Bacchan (he has to be there in every film nowadays), gets tired (like the audience) of all the inane explanations provided by the cops, and FINALLY asks them to cut the chase and get to the end.

It turns out that the 5 most wanted killers are zeroed in on by the cops. Khan says it was an informer, but other references claim it was the dubai don himself who screwed his lieutenant here by giving the cops his hideout. Like that matter much? So the dumb cops suround the building, and... open fire (based on true rumors, isn't it?). ???????? hello??????

Then an absolute war ensues, and the goons are mercilessly gunned down. Encounter!

What irked me the most was:
1. The fact that Maya Dolas finds it surprising that his boss in dubai screwed him, especially after the fact that he himself went after the Boss' man in mumbai. How dumb can he be?

2. In typical Bollywood style, all the goons call up their near and dear ones from a phone in the house, and confess to their mistakes. In one scene, this goon says, 'Yeh sala mamu lok (cops) humlog ka encounter karne ke liya aayela hai'. Dude, what were you expecting???
That they come there and arrest you? Handcuff you, take you to court, feed you on the taxpayer's money, and then one-day let you out on bail? Atleast, he cant expect that!!! And it's exactly such bullshit movies that glorify and gangster's life and make the police appear like immoral murderers. They show the lamentations of the dead dolas's mother, but not of the family of the builder these rascals killed.

Basically, its an uncooked story, that tastes as bad at the beginning, as in the end. Watchin "... Metro" after this made 'Metro' look like an Oscar winner...