The action-thriller helmed by Nishikant Kamat, re-teams the actor with Shruti after last year's hit comedy Welcome Back. The Dostana star is excited for his next release Rocky Handsome opposite Shruti Hassan. But we haven't finalised what we want to do next together."ġ911 follows the story of footballer Sibdas Bhaduri, who captained football team Mohun Bagan in the historic 1911 IFA Shield Final, where it defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment with a score of 2-1 to become the first Asian team to win the competition. We want to work together as we get along well.
There is an X factor that you look for in a film we are yet to get that," he said.
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"Shoojit and I have still not able to crack on a proper idea. John said the film is not shelved and he is still working on the core idea with director Shoojit Sircar. John, 43, also spoke about working on one of his dream projects - 1911, a film which revolves around football, a sport the Force actor is passionate about. Gupta had earlier said he would retain most of the cast of Shootout at Wadala, including John, Sonu Sood, Anil Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee and Tusshar Kapoor in Mumbai Saga. But we are not in touch at all so I have no idea on Mumbai Saga or what he plans to do." I love him and would like to work with him. Sanjay and I are not in touch with each other. "After that (Shootout at Wadala) he did Jazbaa. I have not heard from Sanjay Gupta (about the film)," John said. Gupta, who had directed John in 2013 crime drama Shootout at Wadala, had announced Mumbai Saga as his next project, a film set in the 80's and 90's on the nexus between mill owners, the underworld, and police in Mumbai. That’s the night the D-Gang was born and Dawood swore revenge.JOHN ABRAHAM SAYS he has no clue about what has happened to director Sanjay Gupta's previously annouced project Mumbai Saga, which was supposed to star him in the lead. That’s the night Dawood Ibrahim took over as the leader of the gang. That’s the night that changed Bombay’s underworld forever. Sabir was killed at the Prabhadevi Petrol Pump outside Siddhivinayak temple in the dead of the night. On 12th February, 1981, Manya, along with the Pathans, planned, orchestrated and executed the most infamous murder in the history of Bombay’s underworld. The top gang of the city had come asking him for help and in doing so he would eliminate the other, and therefore become, as he said, “ For Manya, it was a clear shot to success. Manya was known for his dare devilry and strategic planning. The Pathans, taking advantage of the peace that had been brokered by Haji Mastan, contacted Manya Surve to eliminate Sabir. The first educated Hindu gangster whose reign of terror in the area of Agar Bazaar, Dadar, still sends a shiver down the spines of people I met who knew him. Thus was born the legend of Manya Surve, the first desperado in the Bombay gangland. Enraged, he decided to form his own gang. But till then the gangs were communal and being a Hindu, he was denied acceptance. After nine long years he escaped and returned to Bombay with the sole intention of getting into the underworld. Somewhere in the middle of this, a young man, Manohar Surve, fresh out of Kirti College got implicated in a murder that he did not commit and was sentenced to life in Yerwada Jail. Things got so out of hand that Haji Mastan, who was respected by both sides, was forced to intervene and call for a truce with both the sides swearing on the Holy Quran to stop the bloodshed. Blood was on the streets and law and order became a joke. Soon the war between the Pathans and Kaskar brothers escalated into the worst gang war that the city had ever seen. At their wits end in controlling the spiraling crime in the city, the cops decided to end the Pathan menace by backing Sabir and Dawood against them. His name was Sabir Ibrahim Kaskar, and standing by his side was his younger brother and second-in-command, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. In the 70s, one young man stood up to challenge their supremacy and to end their reign of terror with terror. Often, retrieving their funds required muscle, which soon changed into ‘dadagiri’ or roughing up people violently. These men from Afghanistan had come to the city as money- lenders. A story that gave birth to my forthcoming film,įrom the 1950s to the 70s, Bombay was ruled by one particular gang who did not believe in the law of the land - The Pathans. So when was it that the cops decided to kill and not catch? What was that single incident, which was the catalyst? Who was the first victim? Who was the first perpetrator? Who created the concept of encounter killings and why? Who was the mastermind? I set out to look for answers to these questions, and in doing so, stumbled upon a story more shocking than I’d imagined.