Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)

Amitabh Bachchan: Dhingra

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Quotes 

• Dhingra : [now as the ATS' defense lawyer, in court]  I just want to ask one question. One question - that's it. It's a question for this court, for this country: it's not a question of law, it's a question about our homes, our families. You have a family... right now, your wife and child are alone at home and there's a man right outside your door with a gun.

  [pause] 

  Dhingra : Who do you want that man to be?

  [the gangsters] 

  Dhingra : Maya? Buwa? Or

  [the police officer] 

  Dhingra : Khan? That's my question - I don't wat you to give me a long legal judgement - it's an easy enough question, give me the easy answer.

• Dhingra : [interrogating the cops involved in the shootout]  You mean all the charges against the ATS - lockup tortures, public shootouts, encounter killings - are all lies?

  Javed Shaikh : The truth is not something that you read about on some piece of paper. The truth is something that you find out on the streets of Bombay.

• Dhingra : [after listening to all arguments by Sanjay Dutt why the ATS was established and it's justification of harsh tactics]  Well, no wonder these human rights activists are after you. Take a look outside, they are still holding protests.

  Shamsher Khan : [In an outburst]  Yes, these human rights activists, media reporters, journalists, who can talk trash without knowing anything. Why ? Coz people like me have given them the space to do as they like. Atleast now even if a bit so, there's some fear amongst criminals in the name of police. Atleast now, they think twice before murdering anybody. Else there are hundreds of places in this country where people have to hide even in their own houses. Who are these guys, Maya and Buwa ! What is the significance of them being alive or dead ! Kindly answer me Mr. Dhingra.