{"id":670494,"date":"2026-05-14T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670494\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:50:09","slug":"sanjay-dutt-has-been-grossly-wasted-before-dhurandhar-says-sanjay-gupta-as-he-opens-up-on-working-with-him-on-kaante-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670494\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sanjay Dutt has been grossly wasted before Dhurandhar,’ says Sanjay Gupta as he opens up on working with him on ‘Kaante 2’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Sanjay Sanjay Dutt<\/a> received immense praise for playing SP Chaudhary Aslam in Aditya Dhar<\/a>\u2019s blockbuster films Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar 2. The success of the franchise also marked a major turnaround for the actor at the box office after a series of underperforming films such as Bhoomi, Kalank, Panipat, and Shamshera. Now, filmmaker Sanjay Gupta<\/a> has spoken candidly about Dutt\u2019s career, saying the actor\u2019s talent had not been utilised properly before Dhurandhar.During an appearance on the InControversial Podcast, Gupta reflected on Dutt\u2019s journey and revealed that the two have been discussing future collaborations. \u201cWe are constantly in touch. We have been working on what to do next. My problem is that it has to come organically. If you see from 2007, we made Lokhandwala, and we released Wadala in 2014, but it took those many years for the story. So likewise, now I am seeing Sanju do all this and he is doing a great job, there\u2019s no denying that,\u201d he said.The filmmaker further shared his thoughts on how Dutt had been presented in films over the years. \u201cBut before Dhurandhar, I feel he has also been grossly wasted. The kind of films that he has done\u2026the filmmakers did not know how to present him. They didn\u2019t know his strengths, and they didn\u2019t take that time out to study. I didn\u2019t have to study; I grew up with him.\u201dSanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta have previously collaborated on several popular films, including Kaante, Musafir, and Shootout at Lokhandwala. Speaking about the long-discussed sequel to the 2002 cult crime drama Kaante, Gupta revealed that work on the project has finally begun. \u201cToday also when I see him, there\u2019s still so much potential and he can carry a film on his shoulders but provided we give him that film. That is what we were constantly going back and forth on. We have also cracked a very base level story for Kaante 2. That is something I will now start writing,\u201d he shared.The filmmaker also explained that legal hurdles had previously delayed the sequel. \u201cAfter Kaante, it was bound in some legal shackles, which has been taken care of now. So, because that is taken care of, I am investing in it creatively \u2013 into writing the sequel. So, let\u2019s see where it goes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Do you believe Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta make a great team?<\/p>\n

Gupta even revealed the cast he envisions for the sequel if everything falls into place. \u201cIf you ask me for my wish list today, I would make Kaante with Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan and Manoj Bajpayee, and to this, add Jaideep Ahlawat, Vijay Varma, and Ali Fazal.\u201dOver the years, Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta have shared a close personal and professional bond, though reports once suggested that the duo had a fallout in 2007 over financial issues. Around 2013, they reconciled and have since repeatedly expressed interest in working together again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanjay Dutt received immense praise for playing SP Chaudhary Aslam in Aditya Dhar\u2019s blockbuster films Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8139,121759,64,63,447,73966,205909,134,105234,17228,323634,284518],"class_list":["post-670494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abhishek-bachchan","tag-aditya-dhar","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-dhurandhar","tag-dhurandhar-2","tag-entertainment","tag-jaideep-ahlawat","tag-sanjay-dutt","tag-sanjay-futt","tag-sanjay-gupta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}