He obtains clearance from police commissioner Krishnamurthy (played by the real A. Khan is deeply frustrated when the Bombay police, mired in internal bureaucracy and corruption, fail to act. 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. They engaged in violence, extortion, and other subversive tactics to grow their operations. Khan explains that following Operation Blue Star in 1984, several Sikh terrorists fled to Bombay and began establishing a base in the city. The film flashes back to show Khan selecting his men and putting them through intensive physical and mental training to be "fast, efficient and deadly." Dhingra is hardly impressed: he points out that if Khan "shoots to kill," he is no different from the gangsters he seeks to destroy.ĭhingra asks why Khan felt he had to do this. He borrowed the concept from the LAPD SWAT team to help combat crime. Khan explains that he hand-picked 27 of Bombay police's best-enlisted men and officers. The main film timeline is the extended interview of the three officers by Dhingra as the officers answer Dhingra's questions, the film flashes back to show the incidents.ĭhingra asks about the Encounter Squad. Khan, played by Sanjay Dutt), Inspector Kaviraj Patil ( Sunil Shetty) and Constable Javed Sheikh ( Arbaaz Khan). The film moves to the office of former chief justice turned private prosecutor Dhingra ( Amitabh Bachchan), who interviews the three leading members of the Bombay Encounter Squad: Additional Commissioner of Police Shamsher S. TVN reporter Meeta Matu ( Dia Mirza) reports that some 3000 rounds of ammunition were discharged by a large police squad at a previously peaceful residential area. The film opens with shots of brooms and dustpans cleaning dried blood, and cartridge casings in and around the Swati building at the Lokhandwala Complex. The leading protagonists in the film have slightly different names than their real-life counterparts, and the film caption is "based on true rumours." Plot Dreaded gangster Maya Dolas was hiding in the complex. A." Khan, head of the ATS, attacked the Lokhandwala Complex on 16 November 1991, with a force of around 400 armed policemen. Based on the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout, a real-life gun battle between gangsters and the Bombay Police, it stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Tusshar Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Rohit Roy, Amrita Singh and Dia Mirza in pivotal roles. Shootout at Lokhandwala is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film 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.
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