Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta worked in many films together throughout the 1990s and 2000s but the actor-director duo fell apart in the late 2000s. Gupta had even started his career with Dutt in the 1994 film Aatish. In a new interview, Sanjay Gupta spoke about his relationship with the actor with whom he collaborated on Kaante, Plan, Musafir, Zinda among many others.
Gupta spoke about the muhurat of his first film Aatish and how it “generated a lot of buzz” from the start. He recalled that even when they shot for the film in Mauritius, “Sanjay Dutt was a kid in a toy store because the army gave us their guns.” He claimed that the “fire power” seen in Aatish had not been seen in any film before. “We were let loose that go do whatever you want,” he said.
Sanjay Gupta also addressed their fallout that lasted for over four years and said that “nothing went wrong” between them. “I think what went wrong were the people around us. There were people around us who tried to create too many misunderstandings. We didn’t speak to each other for four years. But we never spoke ill about each other,” he shared with YouTuber Siddharth Kannan.
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Gupta claimed that he did not have any work for three years as many people in the film industry stopped entertaining him. “People had stopped taking my calls because they were saying that Sanjay Dutt has said ‘don’t work with him’, which Sanjay never said,” he said. Gupta said that he was “very hurt” by the whole incident.
He shared that they patched up a few years later at Amitabh Bachchan’s 70th birthday party. Recalling that Dutt called out his name, he shared that they just hugged each other and cried, and made up instantly. But Gupta said that he made a rule that they would never work or drink together. “That time, I took a stand. I said we won’t do two things. We won’t drink together and we won’t work together. Now both of us are hungry, desperately searching for the right script,” he said.
Sanjay Gupta said that he is working on a sequel to his film Zinda, which originally starred Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham.
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