Sanjay Gupta Dies After Accidental Fall in Mumbai — SkimNews
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- Milap Zaveri confirmed to the Press Trust of India that Gupta died Friday, October 30, after a fall at his home in Mumbai.
- Free Press Journal reported that local police registered an accidental-death report, said no foul play was suspected, and said Gupta slipped in his residence's kitchen and succumbed to a serious head injury.
- Sanjay Gupta was reported as 57 at his death, though some sources put him at 59 and placed his birth two years earlier than the stated October 23, 1969.
- Kaante (2002) was one of Gupta's best-known crime films and drew comparisons to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
- Quentin Tarantino called Kaante "fabulous" in 2007 and said he was "truly honoured" by its Bollywood cast; Gupta's stated willingness to "beg, borrow and steal from any medium" had fueled plagiarism questions.
- White Feather Films and Gupta produced Shootout at Lokhandwala and Acid Factory, while Gupta also wrote the screenplay for the 2007 Lokhandwala film.
- Sanjay Dutt was a frequent collaborator with Gupta, whose cited credits also included Shootout at Wadala (2013), Aatish: Feel The Fire (1994) and Kaabil (2017).
Why it matters: For Gupta's three surviving family members and frequent collaborator Sanjay Dutt, the death ends the career of a filmmaker credited on six named films. The police finding of an accidental death and no suspected foul play provides the clearest official account of how he died.
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