The credit titles of Sanjay Gupta's Shootout At Wadala would have Sanjay Gupta's wife Anu Gupta's name as co-producer together with Ekta Kapoor.
Says Gupta enthusiastically, "Yes, for the primary time my wife Anu's name will appear because the official producer for my film. Previously ten years, I HAVE BEEN to hell and back. I had a near-fatal accident. My wife brought me back from the dead. She gave me a brand new life, a brand new beginning and a son, at a time when my so-called friends decided to get seriously malicious. It is a new beginning for me. And if today I'm at the threshold of a fresh beginning this is because of my wife and the son that she has gifted me. So yes, she's the official co-producer of Shootout At Wadala."
Gupta has no ambitions of seeing his little son Shivansh grow as much as be a filmmaker. 'No way! I've chosen this amazing international school for Shivansh, recommended by my dear friend Anil Kapoor. After I saw the college and the facilities and vision provided there, I immediately began dreaming big academic dreams for my son."
The film was launched on Wednesday evening in Mumbai with a few of the star cast present to lend Sanjay Gupta support, although a piece of the industry had threatened to ostracize anyone related to Gupta.
Laughs Gupta nonchalantly, "I wish my detractors get a lifetime of their very own. You actually can't keep an artistic man down. Every effort to drag me down has finally failed. There has been a time when everyone I approached to do a task had already received a warning against working with me. Luckily for me, actors of the caliber of Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Manoj Bajpayee and Sonu Sood stood by me. So today I'M here, starting a movie that I'M HOPING will prove I still have far to head".
Gupta says he hasn't ever felt so nervous excited and concerned. "ONCE I started my career as a director in 1994 with Aatish, I USED TO BE barely 22 and entirely fearless. I had no fear of the unknown because I DID NOT know what lay in store. Today having made that long journey, I'M embarking on another phase in my life with way more nervousness than my first film because I've an enormous personal and professional responsibility on my shoulder. Shootout At Wadala has to work."
Known for adapting foreign films all his career Shootout At Wadala is a fiercely original script. Protests Gupta, "Sure, a large number of my work up to now was derivative. But not one of the adaptations were blind copies. I did my very own tackle the originals. And i have also done original films. In my Dus Kahaniyaan every story was original."
Copyright rules have lately become more stringent. Is that some of the explanation why Sanjay Gupta has decided to head original together with his new film?
Protests the director, "CERTAINLY NOT! And really, who says filmmakers have stopped copying on account of stringent copyright laws? They're still doing it, though not getting caught at it. Even now proving plagiarism charges in a court of law may be very tough. No, I'm only going to be doing original films now. Let others do the derivations now. I'm done with them."
At the development for the commencement of Shootout At Wadala on Thursday evening, Sanjay Gupta had a distinct section dedicated to his technicians. "THEY'RE those who actually make a movie. Of course, I honoured the actors in my film by giving every one of them their character's name and a dialogue from the film. But I felt it was equally important to honour the technicians."
