Director Sanjay Gupta is the man behind several sleek action films in Bollywood. His rich repertoire of films include popular names such as Aatish, Kaante, Kaabil, Shootout At Lokhandwala, among others. His collaborations with actor Sanjay Dutt, in particular, have been celebrated. Sanjay Gupta’s directorial debut Aatish: Feel the Fire [1994] featured Sanjay Dutt in the lead role. However, the collaborations came to a standstill when the director and actor had a fall-out. The director has now spoken about the same in an interview with Siddharth Kannan. When asked what went wrong between them, the filmmaker said: “Nothing went wrong. What went wrong, I think, were the people around us. Some people around us tried to create too many misunderstandings between us. We didn’t speak for four years. But in those four years, you may look for it, you will not find a statement by me against Sanjay Dutt and you will not find a statement against me by Sanjay Dutt. Both of us did not open our mouths. The world pitted us against each other but we did not open our mouths. I sat without work for three years. People had stopped taking my calls because there were people calling up people and saying, ‘Sanjay Dutt has asked you not to work with Sanjay Gupta.’ Sanjay Dutt never said that.”
He also accused producer Dharam Oberoi of falsely telling people that Sanjay Dutt had asked them not to work with Sanjay Gupta. About Dharam Oberoi, Sanjay Gupta added, “He even became Sanjay Dutt’s manager for a short while. He was calling people. So when Sanjay Dutt’s manager calls people, they will believe it.” Sanjay Gupta further reiterated that Sanjay Dutt had never tried to rob him off work opportunities. “I remember, I had shut my office down at …read more
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