Years after his fallout with Sanjay Dutt, filmmaker Sanjay Gupta wanted to make Kaante 2 with Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Manoj Bajpayee, Jaideep Ahlawat, Vijay Varma and Ali Fazal. However, before the project could materialise, Gupta died at the age of 57 after suffering a head injury early on Saturday morning. Gupta and Dutt shared a long-standing friendship that began with the filmmaker’s debut, Aatish: Feel the Fire, which became a blockbuster. They went on to collaborate on several films, including Jung, Khauff and Kaante. The latter became Gupta’s second hit, followed by projects such as Plan, Musafir and Zinda.

Their relationship began to sour around the time Gupta made Shootout at Lokhandwala. Speaking to The Times of India in 2013, Gupta recalled, “I had a fallout with Dutt from 2007 to 2011.…