Every once in a while, Sanjay Gupta takes a break from his stylised actioners to go to the gullies of Mumbai and find murky stories about the city’s underworld. Nine years after Shootout At Wadala (2013), the filmmaker is ready with the script of the third instalment in the action franchise. This time around, he is focusing on a young gangster who shook up Mumbai’s crime scene between the late ’80s and early ’90s. In an exclusive chat with mid-day, Gupta shares, “Like the first two parts, this is also based on a real incident and characters from the Bombay underworld. Here, the protagonist is much younger. Beginning at 18, he was active for only six years. But even in such a short span, he terrorised [the city].” The filmmaker, however, refuses to divulge further details about the protagonist.

Sanjay Gupta