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Shootout at Wadala is a hyper-dramatized and stylized cinematic version of what is essentially a journalistic account (taken from S Hussain Zaidi’s book Dongri to Dubai) of the rise and fall of a Mumbai mafia don in the 1970s and 1980s. Cast: John Abraham, Kangana Ranaut, Anil Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Siddhant Kapoor Director: Sanjay Gupta Another thriller about cops and goons set in the Mumbai underworld? Yes, pretty much so. But Shootout at Wadala is more than just a series of action scenes strung together with the purpose of revealing the many dangers that lurk in mafia land. With many dates, ranging from the 1970s all the way to January 1982, thrown into the narrative to create the film’s historical context, Shootout at Wadala freely fictionalizes details drawn from the police files. The film scores on two fronts – the niftily choreographed action sequences and the sharply written dialogues (Milan Mi