Sanjay Gupta is an Indian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter working primarily in

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" ...

industry. Gupta is mostly known for his films such as Aatish, ''

Kaante ''Kaante'' () is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action-thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta, written by Milap Zaveri, and starring an ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Kumar Gaurav, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrek ...

'', ''

Kaabil ''Kaabil'' () is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romantic action thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta, written by Vijay Kumar Mishra, produced by Rakesh Roshan under his banner FilmKraft Productions. It stars Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Roni ...

Shootout at Lokhandwala ''Shootout at Lokhandwala'' is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and co-written by Apoorva Lakhia and co-written and co-produced by Sanjay Gupta, with Ekta Kapoor serving as producer and Suresh Nair serving as writer. ...

Shootout at Wadala ''Shootout at Wadala'' is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language biographical-gangster-crime film written and directed by Sanjay Gupta. It is a prequel to the 2007 film ''Shootout at Lokhandwala''. It is loosely based on the book '' Dongri to Dubai: Si ...

Jazbaa ''Jazbaa'' () is a 2015 Indian crime thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta. The film's narrative revolves around an attorney forced to defend an unsavory criminal after her daughter is kidnapped. It stars Aishwarya Rai and Irrfan Khan, with S ...

'' and '' Zinda''. He has frequently cast

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and John Abraham in his movies.

Film career

Gupta started his career with '' Aatish: Feel the Fire'' (1994) starring Aditya Pancholi and

. Later he went to write and direct films including ''

Ram Shastra ''Ram Shastra'' is a 1995 Indian Bollywood action film directed by Sanjay Gupta. The cast of the movie includes Jackie Shroff, Aditya Pancholi, Manisha Koirala and Deepti Bhatnagar in the lead roles. The film's theme is inspired from the 1990 A ...

'', ''

Khauff ''Khauff'' (translation: Fear) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta, starring Sanjay Dutt and Manisha Koirala. It was a remake of the Hollywood film ''The Juror.'' Plot Neha witnesses the Mafia slayin ...

'' and ''

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''. The filming of ''Jung'' (2000), lasted over two years. While filming ''

'' in the Los Angeles in 2001, the events of the

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attack forced the film to relocate planned scenes from several areas that were then considered sensitive. Commentators noted a similarity in ''Kaante'' to

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's film ''

Reservoir Dogs ''Reservoir Dogs'' is a 1992 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length debut. It stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Tarantino, and Edward B ...

''. 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'',

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's '' City on Fire''. Gupta's '' Zinda'' (2006) has been described as an unofficial remake of the Korean film '' Oldboy''. He also produced the films ''

'' (2007) and '' Dus Kahaniyaan'', and directed and co-produced ''

'', the sequel to ''Shootout at Lokhandwala''. On December 24, 2019, he made an announcement on the acquisition of

Yali Dream Creations Yali Dream Creations LLC, known as YDC, is an Indian comic books publisher, focused on creating original stories using comics and graphic novels. YDC was founded in 2012 by Asvin Srivatsangam, and published its first graphic novel in 2013, writ ...

' 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 fro
Yali Dream Works

Filmography

References

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* 20th-century Indian film directors Living people Hindi-language film directors Indian male screenwriters Film directors from Mumbai University of Mumbai alumni Hindi film producers 21st-century Indian film directors Film producers from Mumbai 1966 births {{India-film-bio-stub