Sanjay Gupta is celebrating 25 years of his Bollywood career, and he does that by announcing his next film, Mumbai Saga. Touted to be his ambitious movie to date, Mumbai Saga is produced by Bhushan Kumar under his banner, T-Series, and Gupta's own production house, White Feather Films. Emraan Hashmi and John Abraham play the leads in the film, which features an ensemble cast in Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, Prateik Babbar, Gulshan Grover, Rohit Roy and Amole Gupte. Mumbai Saga: Sanjay Gupta Reveals The Exciting Cast of His Next Gangster Drama; Emraan Hashmi, John Abraham Lead the Show!

Some of the actors in the cast have already worked with Gupta like John Abraham (Zinda, Shootout at Wadala), Jackie Shroff (Shootout at Wadala, Jung), Suniel Shetty (Kaante), and Gulshan Grover (Aatish). From what we hear, Mumbai Saga will be about the underworld wars between the '80s and the '90s in the metropolitan.

Sanjay Gupta always had an affinity for gangster movies and some of his iconic films belonged to the genre. Not every film of his hit the bullseye but they have defined his career in many ways. Sanjay Gupta has also directed ensemble movies in the past too, most of them belonging to this genre.

So in this feature, we look at some of the ensemble gangster movies that Sanjay Gupta has made and how they worked at the box office.

Aatish

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Aditya Pancholi, Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Atul Agnihotri, Shakti Kapoor, Gulshan Grover

Sanjay Gupta's first film also perhaps still remains his most dramatic and best effort. It also started his long association with actor Sanjay Dutt that has gone through some bad weather in recent times.

Box Office: Hit

Kaante

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Rati Agnihotri and Malaika Arora

This remake of the Quentin Tarantino classic Reservoir Dogs was stylishly shot and had given more depth to the characters, than the original film. It is also reported that Tarantino himself loved the film.

Box Office: Above Average

Musafir

Cast: Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt,  Aditya Pancholi, Sameera Reddy and Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Gupta's remake of Sean Penn's U-Turn is perhaps his boldest film to date, thanks to the kissing and sensuous scenes. While the songs by Vishal-Shekhar ruled the charts, Musafir failed to entice the audiences to the box office.

Box Office: Flop

Shootout at Wadala

Cast:  John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut, Tusshar Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, Sonu Sood, Ronit Roy, Mahesh Manjrekar, and Siddhanth Kapoor.

The spiritual successor to Shootout at Lokhandwala was based on eminent former journalist Hussain Zaidi's best-seller, Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia. The movie is about the killing of gangster Manya Surve by the Mumbai police in 1982.

Box Office: Hit

Bollywood has given a break to gangster dramas for some time, including Gupta himself. Gupta's last film was Kaabil, a revenge drama with romantic elements. The movie, starring Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam in the lead, was a decent success at the box office. Now with Gupta returning to gangster dramas, can he manage to rejuvenate the genre for the current audiences?

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