Plot Holes


Why did Manoj Vajpayee (Officer Wasim) decide to shift original jewelry to the safe deposit. All 26 people were present at the jewel shop, while only 2 at the workshop.

It made no sense to me, as Akshay Kumar's team had no way of escaping with the original jewelry from Opera House.

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Rollo Tomasi

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CBI Officer cannot take huge risk of keeping the original jewelry at the place of heist, what if they take it? Plus even after taking it, they could have been caught anytime as it was marked by CBI(real one). He was mitigating the risk and it made perfect sense, if he dint know that there is a mole in his own team.

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"CBI Officer cannot take huge risk of keeping the original jewelry at the place of heist, what if they take it?"

I still don't understand the logic. You have more than 20 people at the heist site, whereas only 2 people where real jewelry is stored. If this was a way of mitigating risk, he needs a risk management lesson :)

Akshay's Kumar team had no way of escaping with real jewelry with all those CBI officers + sniper pointed at them.

Rollo Tomasi

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why ajuu(akshya kumar) needs 26 and original cbi officer waseem khan(Manoj Bajpayee), he can do it easily like his previous raids, why ajuu(akshya kumar) sent Ranvir Singh (Jimmy Shergill) to waseem khan i didn't understand his logic to involve original cbi.

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abe chu

it was a big robbery .. ajju wanted to show waseem khan that he is planning something big .. n for robbing opera it will take time as the jewelry is everywhere ...so he prepared his team .. bt they shifted it to one place in 2-3 box which was easy for 7-8 ppl to rob ..


ranvir was the one who was keeping an eye on waseem khan .. n was part of the plan


watch it again ..

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I have another question. As the jewellery has been moved into the safe deposit,obviously people guarding there would have known about the fake CBI raid which was going to take place.So when Ajju and Co. raided the safe deposit location how come no one suspected foul play?

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the only explanation could be that those guards were dumb..the only means of communication we telephone and they cut the wires ...the shop ppl were nervous n dumb..there papers may nt be up to date ..

nt sure the guards were informed about the whole thing properly ...

also everything happened very fast .

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I guess it was india in the 1980s, under developed and a lot of corruption, anyone could fake their identity into a profession. Plan A was to rob the jeweler store and it needed a big recruits to take the jeweler and make it a believable CBI raid. After Waseem found out what the plan was, they changed their Plan A, and since Waseem did not know he had one fake CBI guy in his team, it made Ajju's job a lot easy. Waseem wanted to catch them red handed hence he didn't arrest Sharmaji, and get evidence and fingerprints. He shifted the Jwelleries to a safe place so it can't be stolen incase it goes wrong and thieves get away with it. If one analyses a bit more by viewing it for the 2nd time in the sense of 1980s,then you would understand it. One thing that was disappointing in the film was the love track and one punjabi wedding number which looked out of place. This happened in real life but some bits was fictionalized as the actually thieves never got caught.

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“After Waseem found out what the plan was, they changed their Plan A” !!!!

It was not the pure Luck of real CBI that Waseem found out their Plan. It was deliberately done.
As you can understand from the things that Jimmy was accompanying them and he find out the Anupam kher records. Also when Manoj Bajpayee got to know from the Jewelers’ owner that Fake CBI have raided their workshop -- Bajapayee understood all their plan in flashback scenes. So they had deliberately involved CBI in this raid….

Thus it was indeed the plan to involve CBI, now there are lots of plot holes here like ---

1) What was the need of involving Real CBI? I could understand that Akshay Kumar wanted to show them that he is smarter than real CBI guys , but still it involved lots of risk.

2) How could you be sure that the real CBI will definitely not arrest you before your final attempt to rob the jewellers shop? It could have been a good logic in US/UK where you have to caught the thief red handed to prove their crimes but here in India the Real CBI could have under-arrested the whole gang and then with normal torture/practice would have made them accept their robberies. Even few Businessman/Netas could have made to identify them.
"So it was a stupid idea to involve real CBI that too by sending your own goon". Otherwise you could easily have gone at the jewellers shop and have looted that.
There is no point of taking this much of risk to show that you are smarter than the real one!!!!! (I would have liked the movie if the Jimmy character would have been genuine as then it shows that the Real CBI worked hard to get behind those cons and finally in the end these cons were too smart and fooled them. But it this case it' bulls**t !!!!!

3) Ok. I accepted.....you want to fool real CBI that’ why you involved them. But then again --(god knows from where they got this intuition/ surety that)the real jewellery would be deposited in workshop.... This is not understandable. As lots of ppl have made this point that the better option was to keep the jewellery at some place in showroom like any vault. So again you have jeopardized your last raid by involving the Real CBI that too by yourself.......

4) It was never shown how they were able to siphon-off the money they looted to other country. As after these fake raids they would have amassed lots of Money/jewellery which was not that easy to siphon-off. I know in terms of Movies or even real world it' small thing but they should have shown that where and how they were dumping the money esp. the raids outside of Delhi/Mumbai where one of the four con was located.

5) Again the real CBI case - by involving them they have risked their family. At-least as shown in the movie (don't know the background of real con from where this movie is inspired) but here they have shown the big family for Anupam Kher & Joginder (Rajesh Sharma) and even for Iqbal (Kishor Kadam). Only Akki was the man with only a dumb sweetheart. So their family could have been an easy target of CBI esp. since you fooled their best officer.

6) Last the Jimmy Shergil plot --- To make it feel genuine what director has shown (i) The Politician would definitely have called the SP after the fake raid even as shown in the Movie. So now either I should assume that SP was also fake or they all were so dumb to know that Jimmy was a fake Inspector. Even that fake Inspector can be suspended!!!!! And then this fake Inspector can go to CBI and told their top boss that he himself is investigating the case with 19 such sort of cases. So in all this process the whole REAL CBI/ REAL police was so dumb to find out that he was a Con ………


Overall the first half was very beautiful and engaging but the 2nd half/End and suspense was very stupid....

For me --expectations were very high - As I watched movies mostly on the base of directors and not on the base of Star Power so had high expectations from Neeraj Pandey after "Wednesday". But was disappointed.Let'see with the next director Abhishek Kapoor -whose 2nd Movie is also releasing next week -Kai po che! after the marvellous début with "Rock On"





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The SP was also fake, if you did not watch it properly. He is the same person asking for more money from Shanti in the last part of movie, when they are transferring the jewel loot. He mentions that too!

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That would be the stupidest plot: how can a top-notch politician not know the SP of his area? The SP can't be fake: and it's not possible that the SP doesn't know who's the SI there. That is where this film fails miserably: the plot is ridiculous. In addition, as said earlier, the CBI would resort to torture rather than waiting to catch all thieves red-handed!

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Yeah the SP being fake was stupid. They could have either simply eliminated that character and that scene with the politician, or made Jimmy Shergill join Askhay's team after being disillusioned because he got suspended. Would have worked either way. The way they showed it just doesnt make any sense.

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Pandey jee tried to keep it engrossed throughout the movie but in the end just to shift it from thriller to suspense thriller, whole story become stupid. It was a tight story till last 10 minutes. A good suspense can not be created by fooling viewers. Now the question is, keeping jimmy shergil real police wala, what could be a possible way for ajju and company to loot jewellery- both from the shop and workshop.

One possible way would be - ajju had already planned to raid shop as well as workshop. He identifies wasim khan from last night who is standing at the shop entrance. He feels suspicious when coustomers are being sent away (it's a big showroom so coustomers keep coming). He sees jimmy shergil too. He cancels his raid at the shop but goes to raid workshop where his luck meets and he is able to loot all jewellery.

Other way- one night before anupam Kher leaks about wasim khan to ajju and they change whole plan. Keeping one person outside jewellery shop they come to know that jewellery is being shifted to workshop where they raid actually and rest is as it is.

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The officer did not want to risk such a situation where in the con men held somebody hostage and takeaway the jewelry. We can say it was a necessary precaution taken by the officer. As for shifting the items to store with less security would be to avoid suspicion, this is how it works even today in Gold market.
The CBI officer knew he was dealing with somebody talented but was over confident thinking he was playing the cards, whereas it was the other way around.

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Other than those with mentioned above...CBI have the actual address of Anupam Kher...go and arrest him !!!

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They have 2 nut crack officers in the bus, but they did not notice Anupem Kher getting off the bus?!? They were staying put inside the bus with the other ollus even after reaching the site :D

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asd

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Another thing doesnt make any sense....it was about the paper ad of recruiting CBI officers....whole india knew that CBI is taking an interview that is fake...Original CBI could arrest them with that crime easily.

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The ad in TOI, interview, robbery at TBZ Opera House were real incidents; but real CBI was not involved. That fictitious part make plot holes.

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Opera owner didn't seem like a corrupt guy unlike the robbers' previous victims. If Ajju's conscience doesn't let him keep Khan's honest money, how come he is okay with robbing Opera House owner?

-A die-hard GUNDA fan.

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