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Aditya Roy Kapoor to play a lead in third installment of Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout

Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta released his production Shootout at Lokhandwala, back in 2007, which was a box office hit. This was followed by the second movie in the franchise Shootout at Wadala that was released in 2013. Reportedly last year the director had started working on the third installment, and this year, it was reported that the third installment will be based on the 1992 shootout at JJ Hospital.

As per the reports in Bollywood Hungama, the makers have roped in the lead actor for the film. According to the grapevine, “It seems like Malang star Aditya Roy Kapur is in demand for action movies. Right after Malang, he signed OM: The Battle Within. Now we hear that the makers of the Shootout franchise have roped in Aditya Roy Kapur to headline the project. While his role details are kept under wraps, it surely is interesting to see him join the franchise.”

Earlier in March a source confirmed the story and the title of the movie to Bollywood Hungama. “Currently the industry buzz is that the film will be based on the 1992 shootout that happened at JJ Hospital between members of Dawood Ibrahim’s and Arun Gawli’s gang. Given the focus on the rivalry between these two gangs, the film is tentatively being titled Shootout 3: Gang Wars of Bombay,” the report read.

The 1992, the shootout happened at JJ Hospital shootout was due to the murder of Dawood Ibrahim’s brother-in-law Ibrahim Parkar who was allegedly killed by the four gang members of Arun Gawli. Shootout 3 will be produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms.

Disha Yadav

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Disha Yadav

She is an aspiring writer and has been into our the domain of content writing since a year. She joined CT as an intern and soon took over full-fledged writing for Bollywood. She contributes news articles for CT and intends to write on diverse issues on Bollywood.
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