Shootout at Lokhandwala is driven by its gritty, action-oriented narrative rather than identity politics. Characters are cast according to their fit within the story's context, Mumbai's crime scene, not modern ideological quotas. The film focuses on moral ambiguity, tough decisions, and personal motivations, with minimal evidence of forced representation or shoehorned diversity just for its own sake.

The film portrays traditional structures like family, law enforcement, and masculine heroism as both positive and flawed, but does not undermine them out of fashion. Instead, it works within the expected genre of Indian crime dramas. There are no obvious attempts to revise cultural history or mock traditional values for the sake of modern sensibilities.

The movie operates within a mostly realistic world, showing shades of grey on all sides, police, criminals, and politicians, without devolving into simple caricatures of old-fashioned views. Traditional viewpoints exist and are conflicted, and the film’s moral universe allows pluralism rather than only one ideological direction.