Sanjay Gupta (director)

This article relates to Bollywood film director. For the CNN senior medical correspondent of the same name see Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta is a Bollywood writer-director known for his dark and highly stylised film noir thrillers that stand out from the usual Bollywood fare. Sanjay Gupta comes from an affluent business family of South Mumbai. He completed his studies at Palm Beach School at Napean Sea Road and Sydenham College at Churchgate in Mumbai. Like many other Bollywood films, much of his work is an interpretation of other films, both Hollywood and other international pieces. Many other Bollywood films take a more well known film and then remake an Indianized version. Gupta has been criticized for basing his films off of others and refutes these claims in an interview with rediff.com in 2002. News in the industry is that he is had paid dues to many actors and technicians. There is also severe rift between him and Sanjay Dutt which has resulted in the resignation of Sanjay Dutt from White Feather Films For complete interview: http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/jul/27gupta.htm He frequently works with Sanjay Dutt. The two started White Feather Films, a production company located in Mumbai, together. Both have publicly admitted they consider each other real brothers and are very close friends. Many critics have pointed out that with Zinda, Gupta created too close of a remake of a popular Korean film. According to sources and reviews about Korean and Bollywood films, Zinda is a "scene for scene" copy of the Park Chan Wook blockbuster Oldboy.

Quotes

• With Zinda I have moved away from the Michael Bay / Tony Scott style of filmmaking to the David Fincher / Darren Aronofsky school which is highly stylised but controlled and minimal.
• Who is not a DVD copycat director these days? You show me any movie and I'll show you where it's picked up from. - Reacting to claims that he is a DVD copycat director.
• Critics have always accused me of being ahead of the times. About 'Zinda' one trade expert told me I have made a film that is 10 years ahead. But if making a film of today means making a 'No Entry', I'd rather not be with the times.

Filmography