John Abraham says his upcoming movie, 'Shootout at Wadala', in which he will be seen as gangster Manya Surve, will be a career defining film.
"People ask me what is this film for you? I say that this film is my 'Vaastav' (which had Sanjay Dutt in the lead role).
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ZOOMOn a serious note, it's a career defining film and it's something that I have taken very seriously," the 39-year-old, who has lately been seen in comedies and dramas, said at an event here.
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Directed by Sanjay Gupta, 'Shootout At Wadala' also stars Anil Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Mahesh Manjrekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Tusshar Kapoor, Ronit Roy and Kangna Ranaut.John, who has turned producer with 'Vicky Donor', adds that he is having a great time with the team of his first production venture.
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"I am enjoying a lot because my cast of Ayushmann Khurana, Yami Gautam and Anuji (Anu Kapoor) are super talented. Our director Shoojit Sircar, with whom I am doing my next film, we are all a great team.
We are really having a great time and enjoying this," he said.John's last release was 'Desi Boyz' and he is currently gearing up for Sajid Khan's 'Housefull 2' that hits theatres April 5.
Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, who is bringing a shootout on celluloid for the second time with 'Shootout at Wadala' says he is not glorifying gangsters in the forthcoming movie.Directed by Gupta, the film is a sequel to his 2007 film 'Shootout at Lokhandwala'. The second installment will dramatise the first registered encounter by Mumbai police, where gangster Manya Surve was shot dead in 1982 at Wadala.
"We are not glorifying gangsters or the police force in the film. Over here (in the film) we are trying to strike a balance between them (gangster and police) and it is really difficult. But having said that, it is not about a predictableend," Gupta told reporters.
The ensemble cast of the film includes John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Kangna Ranaut, Tusshar Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar and Ronit Roy. In the film, John plays the role of gangster Manya Surve, while Anil plays ACP Isaque Bagwan, who kills John in an encounter.
In Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout At Wadala, Kapoor plays a real-life encounter specialist. Isaque Bhagwan played an instrumental role in the first-ever recorded encounter in police files of gangster Manya Surve. It took place in 1982. Director Sanjay Gupta and Kapoor have met Bhagwan to get an insight into the incident and other details.
Cities
In Cities, Anil plays the “devious/villainous colleague” of a Mumbai cop who fights a corruption nexus between property speculators and the police. Described as “a cautionary tale about greed and ambition”, Anil’s portion forms one of the film’s three stories and will be largely shot in Mumbai.
He carried his goatee with much aplomb in the hit US TV series 24 (2010) and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011). But now, Anil Kapoor has gone in for a makeover. After four years, he has shaved off his trademark French beard for his upcoming Bollywood film, Shootout At Wadala (SAW), and Cities, his Hollywood flick.
Interestingly, Anil will play a Mumbai cop in both films, but the difference lies in details. The actor plays a dark cop in Roger Donaldson’s multi-starrer thriller while Sanjay Gupta’s next will see him portraying the upright character of Isaque Bhagwan.
“We haven’t taken the final call on my look in Cities and SAW. Although we are still working on different ideas, my appearance will more or less be similar in both the films,” confirms Kapoor, who last shot for Priyadarshan’s upcoming action-thriller, Tezz.
While in SAW, he plays a real-life character of an encounter specialist (Bhagwan) for the first time, Cities will apparently portray him as the “devious colleague” of a city cop who fights against corruption among property speculators.
But the actor is “excited” about both the roles. “In SAW, I will wear a police uniform for the first time after Ram Lakhan (1989),” says the Slumdog Millionaire actor.
Kapoor has got a new co-star, Dominic Cooper (of My Week With Marilyn fame), in Cities. Cooper replaces the Closer star Clive Owen. “As far as I know, Clive is no longer a part of the film since the dates were shifted ahead and he couldn’t accommodate them,” says Kapoor, adding that the film’s shooting has been pushed to October-November. The movie also stars Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.
And the National Award-winning actor feels his research for SAW will hold him in good stead for Cities too. “Since I play a Mumbai cop in both films, my life is a bit easy,” says Kapoor, who also plans to focus on the Indian adaptation of 24 after wrapping up his current films.
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