Under pressure, makers of Shootout At Wadala resort to name change of characters

Bollywood circles were stumped when they saw and heard Sonu Sood 'introducing' himself as Dawood Ibrahim, while seeing the rushes of Sanjay Gupta's Shootout At Wadala. In the past, though we had many characters modeled on ‘D’, none were named after him. This didn't go down well with the people associated with the incidences shown in the film. That's the reason why the producers Ekta Kapoor and Sanjay Gupta changed the name of Sonu’s character to Dilawer. On the other hand, Anil Kapoor’s character that was named Isaque has been changed to Afaque. And since the makers had the permission to use Manya Surve's name, the name remains unchanged. But since nothing could be done to the promos that had already hit the internet, Balaji Motion Pictures played a sensible move by issuing a disclaimer before the promo, which states, "...In certain cases, incidents, character's timings have been changed or fictionalised for dramatic purposes. Certain characters may be composites or entirely fictitious. Some names and locations have been changed. The scenes depicted may be a hybrid of fact and fiction..." When we talked to Sanjay, he confirmed the name changes and revealed that the reason for the name change was that he had received many phone calls and was pressured into taking that decision.