Plans and Projects

Sanjay Dutt - Plans and Projects

Released: AGNEEPATH (January 26, 2012)

Karan Johar/Dharma Productions and director Karan Malhotra produced a tribute to the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Agneepath (1990) with Hrithik Roshan, Rishi Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. The role of the villain Kancha Cheena, originally played by Danny Denzongpa, is now played by Sanjay. Katrina Kaif does the item number "Chikni Chameli".
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Under Production

Sanjay Dutt in Department

Alert 24x7 (under production)
Viveck Vaswani and Raveena Tandon told on Twitter about this project: psycho thriller; director Sojan Joseph, writer Dilip Shukla (Dabangg), starring Sanjay Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Raveena Tandon and Anupam Kher. Shooting started in Goa in July 2011.

Department (under production; release in June 2012)
Ram Gopal Varma's next will explore the much-discussed subject of the relationship between the police and the underworld. Amitabh Bachchan will play a gangster turned politician, Sanjay Dutt and Rana Daggubati will play cops (mentor-pupil). Other co-stars are Naseeruddin Shah, Lakshmi Manchu, Anjana Sukhani, Madhu Shalini and Abhimanyu Singh. Shooting started in September 2011. Sanjay plays Mahadev Bhosale.
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Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke (cameo; under production)
Sanjay plays a small but important role in Jyotin Goel's romantic comedy Pri and Me, starring Adah Sharma, Dev Goel, Anupam Kher and Juhi Chawla.
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Race 2 (under production; release on November 30, 2012)
Abbas-Mustan are making a sequel to their movie Race. According to sources, Sanjay Dutt will join the star cast Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandes, Ameesha Patel and Bipasha Basu.
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Rowdy Rathore (cameo - not confirmed yet; under production)
According to rumours, Sanjay does a cameo in Prabhu Deva's movie starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha, produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Satte Pe Satta Remake (under production)
In 2007, Raj Sippy planned a remake of the Amitabh Bachchan classic Satte Pe Satta with Sanjay in the lead but the project never went off. Now Shree Ashtavinayak and Sanjay Dutt Productions want to co-produce this remake, directed by Soham Shah and again Sanjay (who helped them getting the rights) is the man for the role of the eldest brother. For the female lead Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit were considered but in the end the role went to Karisma Kapoor. Even Prakash Raj is on board plus Ashish Chowdhry, Omi Vaidya and Pradhuman Singh. Satte Pe Satta was inspired by the Hollywood musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. Shooting is to start in the beginning of 2012.
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SOS - Son Of Sardar (under production; release on Diwali 2012)
Ajay Devgn's next home production will be a remake of the Telugu blockbuster Maryada Ramanna (directed by Ashwani Dheer). Besides Ajay himself there will be Sanjay, Sonakshi Sinha, Juhi Chawla, Mukul Dev and Vidhu Dara Singh in the cast. Shooting started in the end of November 2011.
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Student Of The Year (cameo; under production)
Allegedly Sanjay does a cameo in Karan Johar's movie in which David Dhawan's son Varun debuts.
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Zila Ghaziabad (under production; release in April 2012)
Vinod Bachchan produces this dramatic thriller about the mafia in Ghaziabad which director-newcomer Anand Kumar started shooting for in July 2011. Sanjay will play a real-life character: Thakur Pritam Singh, a cop who was notorious for his unorthodox way of dealing with criminals. His co-stars are Arshad Warsi, Vivek Oberoi and Minissha Lamba.
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Koochie Koochie Hota Hai (animation movie)
In springtime 2009, rumours said that Sanjay, due to schedule problems, had to turn down Karan Johar's offer to lend his voice to one of the characters in the animated animal version of Johar's classic Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Obviously these rumours were false as this trailer proves. The figure Sanjay lent his voice to seems to parallel the character Salman Khan played in the original movie.
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Sanjay Dutt in Pitaah

Plans / Rumours

Abba Jaan (planned)
In an interview in the Star Week of October 29, 2010 Sanjay Dutt mentioned this film he'll do with Rajkumar Santoshi.

Africa Project (planned)
As a Sanjay Dutt Production, Sanjay plans a film with director Soham Shah wherein he will play a wildlife lover. The locations are considered to be in African national parks in Tanzania and South Africa.
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Edit: Other sources name Sanjay's former WFF project Khotte Sikkey (search for "Saath") as Soham Shah's film for SDP.
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Ajay Devgn Project (planned)
Ajay and Sanjay, who became very close during All The Best, are working on an action movie to be directed by Ajay ("still working on a few things...let's see...will let you know in due course of time").
Edit: Dev Gill mentions a possible film with Ajay and Sanjay. Maybe he talks about just this project.
Edit 2: Or maybe it now becomes a production of the "3 amigos" Sanjay, Salman and Ajay...
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All The Best Sequel (planned)
After the success of All The Best, Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty are planning a sequel, and Sanjay would love to be a part of it again.
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Anil Kapoor Project (rumour)
Sources say that Anil Kapoor wants to make an international project for Sanjay and himself and that also the name of Danny Boyle was mentioned.
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Baba (planned)
Sanjay will act in Kaizad Gustaad's next about a rickshaw driver, alongside with Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah. It's said to be a thriller "with a very strong element of human drama".
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Baba Ramdev Project (rumour)
Mani Shankar is planning a film about Baba Ramdev, and Sanjay is said to participate in it.
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Bihaad... Outlawed (planned)
Sanjay Dutt, Bunty Walia and Juspreet Walia are producing the action thriller Bihaad, Milan Luthria is the director. Sanjay himself has given the plot to Luthria and developed the story with him. It's going to be a true story, a realistic and harsh, but not a dark film. It will be shot in a rural area, planned are the jungles in Madhya Pradesh and the ravines of Chambal Valley. A first poster has already been published, but obviously Ajay Devgn has opted out of the film since that as the project was delayed for many years. But now it seems to be on again.
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Chand (rumour)
Anthony D'Souza plans an end-of-the-world film in 2013. It's said that he wants to have Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Akshay Kumar for the leads.
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Dhee Remake (planned)
Script writer Kona Venkat offered a Hindi remake of the Telugu hit Dhee to Sanjay. Eventually, Sanjay bought the rights of this romcom and roped in director Indra Kumar. Besides Sanjay, Amitabh and Abhishek are to act in the movie - if sources are to be believed.
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Dishkiyaaon (guest appearance; rumour)
Allegedly Shilpa Shetty wants Sanjay for her first home production Dishkiyaaon starring Harman Baweja, and Sanjay is said to have given his nod for the action-oriented role. Newcomer Sanamjit has written the action-packed gangster movie and will also direct it.
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Dhokha (planned)
In a film about the political career of Amar Singh (played by Manoj Tiwari) Sanjay is to appear as himself.
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Fools (planned)
In February 2010, Sangeeth Sivan announced a project named Jab Jab Fools Mile with Sanjay Dutt and Bobby Deol. In November 2011, he mentioned on Twitter a comedy with the provisorial title Fools he's signed to start in mid-2012; cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi and Rahul Aggarwal.
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Freedom (planned)
Vivek Agnihotri is planning the political thriller Freedom which is to take the audience through the journey of India from the 70s to the current times. The film would begin from the 1975-77 Emergency and the alleged sterilisation campaign by Sanjay Gandhi during that period. Some of the other major episodes which would be brought alive on screen are the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Bofors scam, and other prominent scams in the last three decades. Agnihotri wants to sign Sanjay, Madhavan and Mohan Lal and is in talks with them. About Sanjay's role, Vivek says, "He would be present from start to finish of the film and would remain a part of the narrative through all the decades."
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Gehra Paani (planned)
Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu are to star in Gehra Paani, the Hindi version of the yet to shoot Bengali wildlifet hriller Jole Jongole (Mithun Chakraborty, Ashish Vidyarthi, Tinnu Anand). Director Nitish Roy has written the story about a mad scientist who created a genetically evolved crocodile with individual intelligence but now becomes a target of a gang of hunters wanting to capture the reptile for their lucrative business. Both versions are to be released in 2013. According to Nitish Roy he got the idea when he was working as an art director in the 2002 Hollywood horror film 'Crocodile 2: Death Swamp'. "Wildlife movies are rare in Indian cinema and it took me 10 years to find a producer after I wrote the script while working for the Hollywood film. Producers are scared to make films on wildlife and science fiction," Roy said. Now Avik Bagchi (Prayag Group) seems to be ready to take the risk. At a film city in the Jungelmahal area of West Midnapore district a giant 100 foot long crocodile has been created using pyrotechnics and CGI. This will be the first venture from Tollywood where such advanced digital technology and special effects have been used. The unconventional take on the reptile (it's a lovable one and intelligent like dolphins) shall be an attempt to challenge the crocodile's image of a cold-blooded predator and create awareness about the conservation of India's wildlife habitat.
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Happily Divorced (planned)
Dharam Oberoi and Sanjay Ahluwalia will produce this film. "The film is meant for today's urban adult, who have an modern outlook towards life. Rather than treating the whole divorce issue as a complicated and serious affair, we have looked at the whole process of separation from a very practical perspective and have tried to give it a humorous angle" (Ahluwalia).
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Hera Pheri 4 (planned)
Producer Firoz Nadiadwala is said to make Hera Pheri 4 with a completely new cast and crew - Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar, Abhishek Bachchan, and director Anees Bazmee.
Edit: Obviously Sunil Shetty is back in the cast and Sanjay doesn't have to step in for him.
Edit 2: But in November 2010 Sanjay named Hera Pheri as one of his forthcoming projects...
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Kaante 2 (planned)
When Sanjay still was a part of White Feather Films, he had a skript idea for a Kaante sequel (information about it you can find here - scroll down to "Saath"). In the beginning of 2009, both Sanjay Gupta and Pritish Nandy (coproducer of the original Kaante) announced to plan their sequel each - now, in 2011, Nandy has found a partner in Sanjay; Sanjay Dutt Productions and Pritish Nandy Communications are to produce the sequel together.
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Kanchana Remake (rumour)
Sohail Khan is said to plan a Hindi remake of Lawrence Raghavendra's Tamil and Telugu film Kanchana with Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt. New rumours name Shahrukh Khan and Sanjay Dutt for the leads. However, nothing is confirmed yet.
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Kaun Banega Mukhyamantri (rumour)
Dasari Narayana Rao is reportedly planning a film based on politics and titled Kaun Banega Mukhyamantri and has signed Sanjay for the lead. Shooting is to take place in Delhi. However, the project is not confirmed yet.
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KRR Project (rumour)
K Raghavendra Rao is planning a Ramayana magnum opus with Hindi, Tamil and Telugu actors for which even Sanjay is in talks.
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Masti Sequel (rumour)
Allegedly, Indra Kumar wants to make a sequel of his film Masti starring Sanjay Dutt.
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Milan Luthria Project (planned)
Milan Luthria will do a film for Sanjay Dutt Productions starring Sanjay himself. Maybe it's the project Revolver which Luthria earlier had planned for Adlabs with Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar und Ritesh Deshmukh.
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Mukti (rumour)
K Sera Sera's film Mukti was announced in the end of 2007, to be directed Ajay Phansekar and starring Sunil Shetty, Jaya Bachchan and Rimi Sen. In August 2008, however, it was to be read that Shabana Azmi had replaced Jaya Bachchan and that now also Vinod Khanna, Jackie Shroff and Sanjay Dutt would act in Mukti. It's about a cop who shoots a child in an encounter. Ravi Kishen, another actor in this film, mentions in an interview that he would do this film for Popcorn Entertainment. Maybe Sunil is coproducing this film and Sanjay thus became a part of the project...
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Mumbai Taxi Service (shelved)
Apoorva Lakhia is planning a film starring Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar and Sunil Shetty, based on a true story he read in the newspaper about an event in Mumbai from 1985 involving some cops. It will be a realistic film like Shootout At Lokhandwala. Producer is Shree Ashtavinayak. Lakhia is also in talks with Amitabh Bachchan.
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Munnabhai 3: Munnabhai Ki Aatma Katha (planned)
In part 3 of the Munnabhai series, Munnabhai (Sanjay Dutt) and Circuit (Arshad Warsi) originally were supposed to go to the USA (Munnabhai Chale Amerika). A first trailer was already shot and screened at the release of Eklavya. After My Name Is Khan with a similar story, however, Rajkumar Hirani dropped this plan and re-worked the skript; now this Munnabhai movie will deal with the subject of blind faith. Raju Hirani: “The subject of religion has always fascinated me because, apart from moral values, there are rituals, superstitions and blind faith associated with it... I am not saying there is no God, there might be one great power but I will never find the answer to that. There are so many Gods in every religion, so whose God is the best? What are we fighting over? I truly feel that if there was no religion, we would not fight.” Shooting is to start in September 2012. Alongside with Sanjay and Arshad, also Boman Irani is finalized for the cast.
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Osho - The Film (rumour)
The Italian filmmaker Antonino Lakshen Sucameli plans a film about the controversial preacher "Bhagwan Rajneesh" aka Osho and is allegedly in talks with Kamal Haasan and Sanjay Dutt for the main role.
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Qurbani Remake (planned)
Feroz Khan couldn't carry out his plans to remake his blockbuster Qurbani before he passed away. Now his son Fardeen wants to produce it and to play his father's role. Sanjay is said to have chosen the role of the cop Amjad Khan had played in the original movie.
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RGV Project (planned)
After Department, Ram Gopal Varma is planning another movie with Sanjay. It's going to be an international espionage drama where Dutt will play an undercover agent out to crack a global crime syndicate, inspired by Steven Spielberg's take on global terrorism Munich. RGV says, "I truly believe Sanjay Dutt is our last action hero. So, I am going to cast him as a one-man army on a global mission. Munich is the film I've in mind. But it would be not just a cerebral thriller. I want Sanjay Dutt doing a lot of daring action. You see, in Department he plays a plain clothed cop who has to blend with the crowds. So there's little room for heroics. I want to pump up the action level dangerously in our next film. So it would be Munich meets Rambo."
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Rohit Jugraj Project (planned)
In an interview in the Star Week of October 29, 2010 Sanjay Dutt mentioned a film he does together with Rohit Jugraj. As they were location hunting in Africa together it doesn't sound like the bio-pic they once thought about (see below). Maybe it has to do with Rohit's planned Ramanujan project?

Rohit Shetty Comedy (rumour)
It's said that Rohit Shetty plans a comedy with Sanjay Dutt and Ranbir Kapoor, produced by Sanjay Dutt Productions.
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Samir Hafiz Project (planned)
In an interview Sanjay mentioned a film with Samir Hafiz which is to go on floors in December 2011.
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Subhash Ghai Project (planned)
Subhash Ghai has been planning a comedy with Sanjay Dutt and Govinda since 2008. At that time the project didn't go off. But Ghai still hopes to get both actors together for this project; in 3/2011 he mentioned that he has Priyadarshan or Abbas-Mustaan as directors in mind.
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Total Dhamaal (planned)
Obviously Ashok Thakeria and Indra Kumar are already planning a third Dhamaal film with the same cast as in Double Dhamaal.
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More movie rumours which I consider not very believeable, and projects which probably are already stalled, please find here.

Bio-Pic (planned)
Rohit Jugraj plans a bio-pic with Sanjay which, however, seems to be stalled.
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Other Projects

Munnabhai Comic Books
Munnabhai and Circuit are going to become heroes in a comic book series (even animation films are possible). They will be marketed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions itself. Arshad Warsi is delighted by the idea: 'Wow! To actually feature in comic books, like Superman or Spiderman! Imagine what my son Zeke will have to tell his friends in school: 'My father the superhero!'"
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Biography
Initially, Sanjay Gupta has commissioned a Sanjay Dutt biography in three parts, published by White Feather Films and written by journalist Nilesh Mishra. According to Gupta the first volume will be of Sanjay's rehabilitation from drugs. The second will delve into his marriage with Richa Sharma and her tragic death. The third volume will deal with his TADA court proceedings in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case and beyond.
After Sanjay Dutt's resignation from White Feather Films, however, he wants his biography to be produced by his own production house SDP (Sanjay Dutt Productions). And he wants to write it himself. It will be titled "The Roar of a Lion". Reportedly, Gregory Roberts, author of 'Shantaram' will assist Sanjay in penning it.
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Official Website / Official Facebook Page / Trailer 1 / Trailer 2 / Source Source Source Source Under Production Sanjay Dutt in Department Alert 24x7 (under production) Viveck Vaswani and Raveena Tandon told on Twitter about this project: psycho thriller; director Sojan Joseph, writer Dilip Shukla (Dabangg), starring Sanjay Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Raveena Tandon and Anupam Kher. Shooting started in Goa in July 2011. Department (under production; release in June 2012) Ram Gopal Varma's next will explore the much-discussed subject of the relationship between the police and the underworld. Amitabh Bachchan will play a gangster turned politician, Sanjay Dutt and Rana Daggubati will play cops (mentor-pupil). Other co-stars are Naseeruddin Shah, Lakshmi Manchu, Anjana Sukhani, Madhu Shalini and Abhimanyu Singh. Shooting started in September 2011. Sanjay plays Mahadev Bhosale. Source Source Source Source Source Source Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke (cameo; under production) Sanjay plays a small but important role in Jyotin Goel's romantic comedy Pri and Me, starring Adah Sharma, Dev Goel, Anupam Kher and Juhi Chawla. Source Race 2 (under production; release on November 30, 2012) Abbas-Mustan are making a sequel to their movie Race. According to sources, Sanjay Dutt will join the star cast Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandes, Ameesha Patel and Bipasha Basu. Source Rowdy Rathore (cameo - not confirmed yet; under production) According to rumours, Sanjay does a cameo in Prabhu Deva's movie starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha, produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Satte Pe Satta Remake (under production) In 2007, Raj Sippy planned a remake of the Amitabh Bachchan classic Satte Pe Satta with Sanjay in the lead but the project never went off. Now Shree Ashtavinayak and Sanjay Dutt Productions want to co-produce this remake, directed by Soham Shah and again Sanjay (who helped them getting the rights) is the man for the role of the eldest brother. For the female lead Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit were considered but in the end the role went to Karisma Kapoor. Even Prakash Raj is on board plus Ashish Chowdhry, Omi Vaidya and Pradhuman Singh. Satte Pe Satta was inspired by the Hollywood musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. Shooting is to start in the beginning of 2012. Source Source Source Source Source SOS - Son Of Sardar (under production; release on Diwali 2012) Ajay Devgn's next home production will be a remake of the Telugu blockbuster Maryada Ramanna (directed by Ashwani Dheer). Besides Ajay himself there will be Sanjay, Sonakshi Sinha, Juhi Chawla, Mukul Dev and Vidhu Dara Singh in the cast. Shooting started in the end of November 2011. Source Source Student Of The Year (cameo; under production) Allegedly Sanjay does a cameo in Karan Johar's movie in which David Dhawan's son Varun debuts. Source Zila Ghaziabad (under production; release in April 2012) Vinod Bachchan produces this dramatic thriller about the mafia in Ghaziabad which director-newcomer Anand Kumar started shooting for in July 2011. Sanjay will play a real-life character: Thakur Pritam Singh, a cop who was notorious for his unorthodox way of dealing with criminals. His co-stars are Arshad Warsi, Vivek Oberoi and Minissha Lamba. Source Source Official Website / Completed, but not released: Koochie Koochie Hota Hai (animation movie) In springtime 2009, rumours said that Sanjay, due to schedule problems, had to turn down Karan Johar's offer to lend his voice to one of the characters in the animated animal version of Johar's classic Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Obviously these rumours were false as this trailer proves. The figure Sanjay lent his voice to seems to parallel the character Salman Khan played in the original movie. Source Source Sanjay Dutt in Pitaah Plans / Rumours Abba Jaan (planned) In an interview in the Star Week of October 29, 2010 Sanjay Dutt mentioned this film he'll do with Rajkumar Santoshi. Africa Project (planned) As a Sanjay Dutt Production, Sanjay plans a film with director Soham Shah wherein he will play a wildlife lover. The locations are considered to be in African national parks in Tanzania and South Africa. Source Edit: Other sources name Sanjay's former WFF project Khotte Sikkey (search for "Saath") as Soham Shah's film for SDP. Source Ajay Devgn Project (planned) Ajay and Sanjay, who became very close during All The Best, are working on an action movie to be directed by Ajay ("still working on a few things...let's see...will let you know in due course of time"). Edit: Dev Gill mentions a possible film with Ajay and Sanjay. Maybe he talks about just this project. Edit 2: Or maybe it now becomes a production of the "3 amigos" Sanjay, Salman and Ajay... Source Source Source All The Best Sequel (planned) After the success of All The Best, Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty are planning a sequel, and Sanjay would love to be a part of it again. Source Anil Kapoor Project (rumour) Sources say that Anil Kapoor wants to make an international project for Sanjay and himself and that also the name of Danny Boyle was mentioned. Source Baba (planned) Sanjay will act in Kaizad Gustaad's next about a rickshaw driver, alongside with Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah. It's said to be a thriller "with a very strong element of human drama". Source Source Source Baba Ramdev Project (rumour) Mani Shankar is planning a film about Baba Ramdev, and Sanjay is said to participate in it. Source Bihaad... Outlawed (planned) Sanjay Dutt, Bunty Walia and Juspreet Walia are producing the action thriller Bihaad, Milan Luthria is the director. Sanjay himself has given the plot to Luthria and developed the story with him. It's going to be a true story, a realistic and harsh, but not a dark film. It will be shot in a rural area, planned are the jungles in Madhya Pradesh and the ravines of Chambal Valley. A first poster has already been published, but obviously Ajay Devgn has opted out of the film since that as the project was delayed for many years. But now it seems to be on again. Source Source Source Source Source Chand (rumour) Anthony D'Souza plans an end-of-the-world film in 2013. It's said that he wants to have Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Akshay Kumar for the leads. Source Dhee Remake (planned) Script writer Kona Venkat offered a Hindi remake of the Telugu hit Dhee to Sanjay. Eventually, Sanjay bought the rights of this romcom and roped in director Indra Kumar. Besides Sanjay, Amitabh and Abhishek are to act in the movie - if sources are to be believed. Source Source Source Dishkiyaaon (guest appearance; rumour) Allegedly Shilpa Shetty wants Sanjay for her first home production Dishkiyaaon starring Harman Baweja, and Sanjay is said to have given his nod for the action-oriented role. Newcomer Sanamjit has written the action-packed gangster movie and will also direct it. Source Dhokha (planned) In a film about the political career of Amar Singh (played by Manoj Tiwari) Sanjay is to appear as himself. Source Fools (planned) In February 2010, Sangeeth Sivan announced a project named Jab Jab Fools Mile with Sanjay Dutt and Bobby Deol. In November 2011, he mentioned on Twitter a comedy with the provisorial title Fools he's signed to start in mid-2012; cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi and Rahul Aggarwal. Source Freedom (planned) Vivek Agnihotri is planning the political thriller Freedom which is to take the audience through the journey of India from the 70s to the current times. The film would begin from the 1975-77 Emergency and the alleged sterilisation campaign by Sanjay Gandhi during that period. Some of the other major episodes which would be brought alive on screen are the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Bofors scam, and other prominent scams in the last three decades. Agnihotri wants to sign Sanjay, Madhavan and Mohan Lal and is in talks with them. About Sanjay's role, Vivek says, "He would be present from start to finish of the film and would remain a part of the narrative through all the decades." Source Source Source Source Source Source Gehra Paani (planned) Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu are to star in Gehra Paani, the Hindi version of the yet to shoot Bengali wildlifet hriller Jole Jongole (Mithun Chakraborty, Ashish Vidyarthi, Tinnu Anand). Director Nitish Roy has written the story about a mad scientist who created a genetically evolved crocodile with individual intelligence but now becomes a target of a gang of hunters wanting to capture the reptile for their lucrative business. Both versions are to be released in 2013. According to Nitish Roy he got the idea when he was working as an art director in the 2002 Hollywood horror film 'Crocodile 2: Death Swamp'. "Wildlife movies are rare in Indian cinema and it took me 10 years to find a producer after I wrote the script while working for the Hollywood film. Producers are scared to make films on wildlife and science fiction," Roy said. Now Avik Bagchi (Prayag Group) seems to be ready to take the risk. At a film city in the Jungelmahal area of West Midnapore district a giant 100 foot long crocodile has been created using pyrotechnics and CGI. This will be the first venture from Tollywood where such advanced digital technology and special effects have been used. The unconventional take on the reptile (it's a lovable one and intelligent like dolphins) shall be an attempt to challenge the crocodile's image of a cold-blooded predator and create awareness about the conservation of India's wildlife habitat. Source Happily Divorced (planned) Dharam Oberoi and Sanjay Ahluwalia will produce this film. "The film is meant for today's urban adult, who have an modern outlook towards life. Rather than treating the whole divorce issue as a complicated and serious affair, we have looked at the whole process of separation from a very practical perspective and have tried to give it a humorous angle" (Ahluwalia). Source Hera Pheri 4 (planned) Producer Firoz Nadiadwala is said to make Hera Pheri 4 with a completely new cast and crew - Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar, Abhishek Bachchan, and director Anees Bazmee. Edit: Obviously Sunil Shetty is back in the cast and Sanjay doesn't have to step in for him. Edit 2: But in November 2010 Sanjay named Hera Pheri as one of his forthcoming projects... Source Source Kaante 2 (planned) When Sanjay still was a part of White Feather Films, he had a skript idea for a Kaante sequel (information about it you can find here - scroll down to "Saath"). In the beginning of 2009, both Sanjay Gupta and Pritish Nandy (coproducer of the original Kaante) announced to plan their sequel each - now, in 2011, Nandy has found a partner in Sanjay; Sanjay Dutt Productions and Pritish Nandy Communications are to produce the sequel together. Source Source Kanchana Remake (rumour) Sohail Khan is said to plan a Hindi remake of Lawrence Raghavendra's Tamil and Telugu film Kanchana with Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt. New rumours name Shahrukh Khan and Sanjay Dutt for the leads. However, nothing is confirmed yet. Source Source Source Source Source Source Kaun Banega Mukhyamantri (rumour) Dasari Narayana Rao is reportedly planning a film based on politics and titled Kaun Banega Mukhyamantri and has signed Sanjay for the lead. Shooting is to take place in Delhi. However, the project is not confirmed yet. Source KRR Project (rumour) K Raghavendra Rao is planning a Ramayana magnum opus with Hindi, Tamil and Telugu actors for which even Sanjay is in talks. Source Source Masti Sequel (rumour) Allegedly, Indra Kumar wants to make a sequel of his film Masti starring Sanjay Dutt. Source Milan Luthria Project (planned) Milan Luthria will do a film for Sanjay Dutt Productions starring Sanjay himself. Maybe it's the project Revolver which Luthria earlier had planned for Adlabs with Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar und Ritesh Deshmukh. Source Source Source Mukti (rumour) K Sera Sera's film Mukti was announced in the end of 2007, to be directed Ajay Phansekar and starring Sunil Shetty, Jaya Bachchan and Rimi Sen. In August 2008, however, it was to be read that Shabana Azmi had replaced Jaya Bachchan and that now also Vinod Khanna, Jackie Shroff and Sanjay Dutt would act in Mukti. It's about a cop who shoots a child in an encounter. Ravi Kishen, another actor in this film, mentions in an interview that he would do this film for Popcorn Entertainment. Maybe Sunil is coproducing this film and Sanjay thus became a part of the project... Source Source Source Source Source Mumbai Taxi Service (shelved) Apoorva Lakhia is planning a film starring Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar and Sunil Shetty, based on a true story he read in the newspaper about an event in Mumbai from 1985 involving some cops. It will be a realistic film like Shootout At Lokhandwala. Producer is Shree Ashtavinayak. Lakhia is also in talks with Amitabh Bachchan. Source Source Source Source Source Source Munnabhai 3: Munnabhai Ki Aatma Katha (planned) In part 3 of the Munnabhai series, Munnabhai (Sanjay Dutt) and Circuit (Arshad Warsi) originally were supposed to go to the USA (Munnabhai Chale Amerika). A first trailer was already shot and screened at the release of Eklavya. After My Name Is Khan with a similar story, however, Rajkumar Hirani dropped this plan and re-worked the skript; now this Munnabhai movie will deal with the subject of blind faith. Raju Hirani: “The subject of religion has always fascinated me because, apart from moral values, there are rituals, superstitions and blind faith associated with it... I am not saying there is no God, there might be one great power but I will never find the answer to that. There are so many Gods in every religion, so whose God is the best? What are we fighting over? I truly feel that if there was no religion, we would not fight.” Shooting is to start in September 2012. Alongside with Sanjay and Arshad, also Boman Irani is finalized for the cast. Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Osho - The Film (rumour) The Italian filmmaker Antonino Lakshen Sucameli plans a film about the controversial preacher "Bhagwan Rajneesh" aka Osho and is allegedly in talks with Kamal Haasan and Sanjay Dutt for the main role. Source Qurbani Remake (planned) Feroz Khan couldn't carry out his plans to remake his blockbuster Qurbani before he passed away. Now his son Fardeen wants to produce it and to play his father's role. Sanjay is said to have chosen the role of the cop Amjad Khan had played in the original movie. Source Source Source RGV Project (planned) After Department, Ram Gopal Varma is planning another movie with Sanjay. It's going to be an international espionage drama where Dutt will play an undercover agent out to crack a global crime syndicate, inspired by Steven Spielberg's take on global terrorism Munich. RGV says, "I truly believe Sanjay Dutt is our last action hero. So, I am going to cast him as a one-man army on a global mission. Munich is the film I've in mind. But it would be not just a cerebral thriller. I want Sanjay Dutt doing a lot of daring action. You see, in Department he plays a plain clothed cop who has to blend with the crowds. So there's little room for heroics. I want to pump up the action level dangerously in our next film. So it would be Munich meets Rambo." Source Source Rohit Jugraj Project (planned) In an interview in the Star Week of October 29, 2010 Sanjay Dutt mentioned a film he does together with Rohit Jugraj. As they were location hunting in Africa together it doesn't sound like the bio-pic they once thought about (see below). Maybe it has to do with Rohit's planned Ramanujan project? Rohit Shetty Comedy (rumour) It's said that Rohit Shetty plans a comedy with Sanjay Dutt and Ranbir Kapoor, produced by Sanjay Dutt Productions. Source Samir Hafiz Project (planned) In an interview Sanjay mentioned a film with Samir Hafiz which is to go on floors in December 2011. Source Subhash Ghai Project (planned) Subhash Ghai has been planning a comedy with Sanjay Dutt and Govinda since 2008. At that time the project didn't go off. But Ghai still hopes to get both actors together for this project; in 3/2011 he mentioned that he has Priyadarshan or Abbas-Mustaan as directors in mind. Source Total Dhamaal (planned) Obviously Ashok Thakeria and Indra Kumar are already planning a third Dhamaal film with the same cast as in Double Dhamaal. Source More movie rumours which I consider not very believeable, and projects which probably are already stalled, please find here. Bio-Pic (planned) Rohit Jugraj plans a bio-pic with Sanjay which, however, seems to be stalled. Source * Other Projects Munnabhai Comic Books Munnabhai and Circuit are going to become heroes in a comic book series (even animation films are possible). They will be marketed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions itself. Arshad Warsi is delighted by the idea: 'Wow! To actually feature in comic books, like Superman or Spiderman! Imagine what my son Zeke will have to tell his friends in school: 'My father the superhero!'" Source Biography Initially, Sanjay Gupta has commissioned a Sanjay Dutt biography in three parts, published by White Feather Films and written by journalist Nilesh Mishra. According to Gupta the first volume will be of Sanjay's rehabilitation from drugs. The second will delve into his marriage with Richa Sharma and her tragic death. The third volume will deal with his TADA court proceedings in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case and beyond. After Sanjay Dutt's resignation from White Feather Films, however, he wants his biography to be produced by his own production house SDP (Sanjay Dutt Productions). And he wants to write it himself. It will be titled "The Roar of a Lion". Reportedly, Gregory Roberts, author of 'Shantaram' will assist Sanjay in penning it. Source Source Source
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