Sanjay Gupta opens up about his fallout with Vivek Oberoi, Sanjay Dutt.
Sanjay Gupta got candid about his fallout with actors like Sanjay Dutt and Vivek Oberoi despite directing them in his previous films.
Over the years, Sanjay Gupta has given several phenomenal films like Shootout At Lokhandwala, Aatish, Kaante, Kaabil to name a few. The film-maker has worked with Sanjay Dutt and Vivek Oberoi in some of the movies. However, he had a fallout with them. In his recent interview with Siddharth Kanan, Sanjay Gupta opened up about what actually happened.
He shared, “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 further alleged that producer Dharam Oberoi was the one who was spreading false rumours that Sanjay Dutt doesn’t want to work with him,
“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. I remember, I had shut my office down at one point. And I was actually going to give it on rent and I said, ‘Now it is over.’ I had started working on a friend’s hotel in Lonavala – I was redoing it and planning to run it – because I had to run my house. My wife was pregnant,” he recalled.
Sanjay Gupta also quipped about his fight with Vivek Oberoi. He shared, “I just felt that Vivek Oberoi at that moment in time had been very ungrateful… We did Shootout at Lokhandwala…and all the actors agreed to be part of Dus Kahaniyaan. Only Vivek said, ‘My career is going in a certain way. I don’t think I should do an anthology.’ I said, ‘Vivek, you are doing it for me. I have given you a Shootout At Lokhandwala. I have created this character for you.’”
When the director narrated the story of Shootout At Wadala to Vivek Oberoi at his Diwali party,
the actor agreed to do the part instantly, “He got up. He had tears in his eyes, he hugged me. He hugged my wife. He said, ‘I have come back home and I am doing this film,” he stated.
Continuing the story, Sanjay Gupta added that Vivek Oberoi backed out after the announcement. He recounted, “That is where I lost it. I said that is not right. Don’t come to my house, sit with me, hear my narration, congratulate my wife, congratulate me, and say, ‘Ya, let’s do this’ and then after that you turn around and say, ‘I am not doing it.”
On the work front, Sanjay Gupta’s last film was Mumbai Saga that featured an ensemble cast of John Abraham, Emraan Hashmi, Kajal Aggarwal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Rohit Roy, Anjana Sukhani, Prateik Babbar, Samir Soni, Amole Gupte and Gulshan Grover.
