Ekta Kapoor and Sanjay Gupta - Criminal minds

Ekta Kapoor and Sanjay Gupta - Criminal minds
Monday, April 04, 2011 14:57 IST
Ekta Kapoor and Sanjay Gupta's sequel of Shootout at Lokhandwala will be based on Mumbai's first case of encounter killing

Shootout at Lokhandwala's sequel dilemma has finally been resolved. In a dramatic turn of events, not only has Ekta Kapoor persuaded director Sanjay Gupta to drop his plans of adapting a Hong Kong action-thriller, she has also found a new plotline.

Shootout 2 will now recreate the first-ever recorded case of encounter killing in Mumbai (1982), exactly ten years before the time frame set in Shootout at Lokhandwala.

The case refers to the broad daylight gunning-down of Manya Surve on January 11, 1982. Surve, an infamous gangster, was gunned down by a number of policemen in front of a beauty parlour where he had gone to pick up his lover (a widow with two children).

The plot was dug out after Kapoor instructed a research team of four members to find a true-life story on which to base the sequel. The team sifted through numerous reports of encounter killings before finding Surve's case. Apparently, the case immediately grabbed Kapoor's attention.

When contacted Gupta confirmed the news. He says, "You know how persuasive Ekta is. We're no longer adapting the Hong Kong film. Ekta's research team has come up with this absolutely devastating incident that occurred in Mumbai in 1982. The best thing about the plot is that at its heart, it is an amazing love story. We can't wait to start shooting."
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