Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan and Arbaaz Khan play cops in Apoorva Lahiya's film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, which is based on a true incident that occurred in 1991 in suburban Mumbai.
Here's a look at some of the real cops who inspired the reel ones: Aftab Ahmed Khan (played by Sanjay Dutt), Sunil Deshmukh (played by Abhishek Bachchan) and Iqbal Shaikh (played by Arbaaz Khan), were the real cops caught in the intense gunfire with gangsters Maya Dolas, Dilip Bua and their accomplices.
The gunfire lasted for hours and transformed the suburban area into a war zone.
Before the film hits theatres, we get them to spill on what really happened that day.
Aftab Ahmed Khan
This former Indian Police Service officer was quite pleased when he heard that Sanjay Dutt was playing him in the film. But the icing on the cake was his cameo in the film as S Ramamurthy, his former boss and the then police commissioner.
Taking on gangsters and slapping on the grease pain with equal aplomb, Aftab Ahmed Khan, now retired, says he's comfortable doing both.
"It was a great experience to work in a film, which I was closely associated with in real life," he says.
Recalling the shootout, he says, "Maya was abusing me a lot when we went to capture him. I asked him to surrender, yet he abused me nonstop. He had escaped from police custody earlier and had created fear in the minds of people."
Click here to read more about what Khan felt about the incident.
Text: Binoy Valsan
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