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From real to reel: Reality inspires more Bollywood films
Updated On: 18 June, 2012 08:01 AM IST | | IANS
Be it gangster Manya Surve's death in a gunfight, "bikini killer" Charles Sobhraj's audacious jailbreak or the bloody 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, real-life incidents are finding their way on to reel, spurring Indian cinema's gradual move towards more realistic cinema
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Filmmakers like Ram Gopal Varma, Sanjay Gupta and Anurag Kashyap have sought inspiration from notorious cases and incidents and tried to portray them on the big screen.u00a0After spotlighting corruption in police in his film "Department", Varma has started working on a film based on the 26/11(2008) Mumbai attacks, in which about 170 people were killed. The film went on floors in March this year.
Gupta's "Shootout at Wadala" starring John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Kangna Ranaut, Sonu Sood, Tusshar Kapoor and Manoj Bajpayee, will chronicle Mumbai Police's first-ever registered shoot-out, in which Surve was shot dead. The incident took place in Wadala in 1982.u00a0Gupta says it is a challenge to recreate the bygone era.
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