A man named George Augustine Fernandes was arrested there, but he turned out to be a petty thief. Inamdar says police informers were pumped for possible gang connections, but these did not seem to exist. They followed up the obvious thought that he was a CBI officer gone rogue, but Inamdar says they did extensive checks of CBI records and discounted that possibility. Singh appeared to have acted alone and left no traces.
Neeraj Pandey read about this story many years later. He kept it in his head and years later, as a filmmaker with the success of his first film A Wednesday under his belt, he set out to make a movie inspired by this story.
It is not a direct reconstruction of the TBZ heist, since it pulls its own confidence trick on the viewers, taking the story in an unexpected direction. But the germ of the idea came from that day in Movies love confidence tricks. David Mamet, the American playwright who has written much on the skills of conmen and hucksters, notes that they work by giving the victim the confidence to believe in them. That, in essence, is how the best actors and filmmakers work, making us suspend our disbelief at their artifice for the duration of the performance, and this common theatricality makes confidence tricksters a natural subject for movies and plays.
As Pandey recognised, the TBZ heist was a great subject to build on. There was the neatness of the execution, with him working alone, but using others to help so unwittingly. There was the doubled use of confidence, with him giving the trainees the confidence to behave like CBI officers, and his astute guess that the jewellers would lose confidence and not question the dreaded CBI.
And, above all, he got away. Pandey says he got the sense that the crime delighted people — the whole city was laughing about it for months afterwards. All of them gathered at a park near Pitampura metro station where they discussed their plan and reached the doctor's house to execute the dacoity, she said.
During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they were inspired from Bollywood movie 'Special 26'' and decided to execute the dacoity using the same modus operandi as shown in the movie, the officer, said.
During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they were inspired from Bollywood movie 'Special 26'' and decided to execute the dacoity using the same modus operandi as shown in the movie. Share Via. PTI , New Delhi. They said efforts are on to nab Amit and Pawan who are on the run. The police also recovered fake identity cards of CBI officials from them.
Topics delhi robbery delhi crime stories. Get our Daily News Capsule Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing to our Daily News Capsule newsletter. She repeats it thrice. This dialogue is now one of the most recalled from the film. Late Bobby Singh, the cinematographer, executed as many as 45 set ups on one particular day. Such was the film's buzz that the CBI officially requested the producers to carry the message 'Beware of Fake CBI' in all the film's promotional material.
Akshay Kumar lost a bet to Anupam Kher when the box office collections exceeded expectations. Akshay had to dance on top of a table to fulfill his side of the wager. Anupam Kher got a call from a real interviewee who had unknowingly aided the raid which inspired the film's story.
Akshay and Anupam used to bet on how many takes would Neeraj take to say ok. On their friendly bets, Anupam made Rs while Akshay made Rs They treated the unit to sweets with their 'winnings'. With more than films to his credit, Anupam Kher rates Special 26 amongst his top ten performances till date.
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