After over a decade, Emraan Hashmi returns to the gangster genre with Mumbai Saga. After Milan Luthria’s Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), he decided to wait as none of the stories offered surprised him. In Sanjay Gupta’s film, he plays a cop “who is no less than a gangster. I realised I had something to chew on with this story,” he says.

Sanjay Gupta has always been fascinated by the world of crime. A majority of his characters have been on the other side of the law. Some were by choice, some by circumstances. After Shootout At Wadala, he turns his eyes on Mumbai when it was Bombay.