The positive response to 'Lootere' has given director Jai Mehta not only validation but also a chance to get out of his filmmaker father Hansal Mehta’s shadow. After co-directing the hit series Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020) with Hansal, 'Lootere' marks Jai’s first independent directorial. The filmmaker says it is relieving to make an independent identity, but he doesn’t intend to distance himself from his father’s rich legacy. 

“I do feel slightly relieved that people know me as an individual filmmaker. But more than me, I think, the producers, who want to work with me, would like that. The truth is that I am Hansal Mehta’s son first. And I am not competing with him. If I am even half as good as he is at my job, I would achieve a lot. Everything that I have learnt is from him and Anurag (Kashyap) sir. They have been great teachers. I am not here to surpass them,” says, Jai, who assisted Kashyap on Gangs of Wasseypur (2012).