Sanjay Gupta (director)

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Sanjay Gupta
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Gupta at launch of Priyanka Sinha Jha's book Supertraits of Superstars
Born (1967-04-14) 14 April 1967 (age 56)
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Director, producer, screenwriter
Years active1994–present
SpouseAnu Lekhi [1]

Sanjay Gupta is an Indian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter working primarily in Bollywood industry. Gupta is mostly known for his remakes of American action-thriller and crime films, including films such as Aatish , Kaante , [2] Kaabil, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Shootout at Wadala, Jazbaa and Zinda .' and Mumbai Saga . [3] He has frequently cast Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham in his movies.

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Film career

Gupta started his career with Aatish: Feel the Fire (1994) starring Aditya Pancholi and Sanjay Dutt. Later he went to write and direct films including Ram Shastra , Khauff and Jung . The filming of Jung (2000), lasted over two years. [4] While filming Kaante in the Los Angeles in 2001, the events of the 9/11 attack forced the film to relocate planned scenes from several areas that were then considered sensitive. [2] Commentators noted a similarity in Kaante to Quentin Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs . Gupta said that he was inspired by a number of other films as well, including The Asphalt Jungle , The Killing , and the film that inspired Reservoir Dogs, Ringo Lam's City on Fire . Further, responding to allegations of plagiarism, he went on to state that he would "beg, borrow and steal from any medium, be it films, newspapers, magazines, novels, reality, fiction, to make an interesting story." [2]

Gupta's Zinda (2006) has been described as an unofficial remake of the Korean film Oldboy . [5] [6]

He also produced the films Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007) and Dus Kahaniyaan , and directed and co-produced Shootout at Wadala , the prequel to Shootout at Lokhandwala.

On December 24, 2019, he made an announcement on the acquisition of Yali Dream Creations' Rakshak. Gupta took to Twitter to share the details about the project which revolves around a "vigilante" superhero. "So proud and happy to announce that my company White Feather Films has acquired the rights for 'RAKSHAK' A thrilling graphic novel about a vigilante superhero. This is India's first graphic novel to be made into a massive and ambitious feature film to be directed by me," the director wrote alongside the covers of the four issues to the comics. He said he would be producing it under his company, White Feather Entertainment, along with co-producers, Asvin Srivatsangam and Vivek Rangachari from Yali Dream Works. [7]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorProducerWriterNote
1994 Aatish: Feel the Fire YesYesInspired by Deewaar , [8] A Better Tomorrow , [9] and State of Grace [10]
1995 Ram Shastra YesYesBased on Hard to Kill
1997 Hameshaa YesYes
2000 Jung YesYesBased on Desperate Measures
Khauff YesYesBased on The Juror
2002 Kaante Yes [11] YesInspired by City On Fire and Reservoir Dogs [2] [10] Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Director
2004 Plan YesYesBased on Suicide Kings
Musafir Yes [12] YesBased on U Turn
2006 Zinda Yes [13] YesBased on Oldboy
2007 Shootout at Lokhandwala Yes
Dus Kahaniyaan YesYesInspired by The Ten and Tales from the Crypt
2008 Woodstock Villa YesBased on Japanese movie Chaos
2009 Acid Factory YesBased on Unknown
2010 Pankh Yes
2013 Shootout at Wadala Yes [14] YesYesBased on the book Dongri to Dubai
2015 Jazbaa Yes [15] YesYesBased on Seven Days
2017 Kaabil Yes [16] Inspired by Blind Fury and Broken [17] [18]
2021 Mumbai Saga YesYes [19]

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