Amitabh Bachchan mourns the death of Sanjay Gupta.

Amitabh Bachchan took to his blog to mourn the loss of another former collaborator, Sanjay Gupta. The filmmaker directed him in the 2002 heist action thriller Kaante and also produced his 2007 action thriller Apoorva Lakhia’s Shootout at Lokhandwala. Gupta died at the age of 59 on Saturday after sustaining a head injury at his Mumbai residence.

Amitabh Bachchan mourns his Kaante director’s death

“A friend, a fellow artiste, and a true devotee of art has left us at such a young age! I am unable to understand how all of this is happening,” Bachchan wrote on his blog on Sunday. “Our dear companions from the world of art are being snatched away from us. What wrong have they done to deserve such a fate?,” he asked.

“People say that all the powerful planets in the solar system have turned unfavourable at the same time. Please have mercy on us. Those who are raining their wrath upon us – is this really fair?…