The actor returns to production with a Telugu hit; Ali Fazal to play his son
Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 14, 2018)

Sanjay Dutt is returning to production after seven years with a remake of the 2010 Telugu hit Prasthanam. He also plays the lead, alongside Ali Fazal as his son and Amyra Dastur as Ali’s love interest. The original director, Deva Katta, is back to helm it, with certain changes in the script as he’s catering to a pan-India audience. The political drama whose title has also been retained with a small change in the spelling —it’s Prasthaanam now — goes on the floors in the first week of June in Mumbai.

Dutt has earlier collaborated with Sanjay Gupta on the action-thriller Zinda (2006) as production-presenter, was the associate producer on Gupta’s Shootout At Lokhandwala (2007), based on a real-life gun battle between gangsters and the Mumbai police, and on Dus Kahaniyaan, an anthology of 10 shorts, in the same year. He also produced the David Dhawan-directed Rascals, in 2011. Getting back to his new project, the original featured Sai Kumar as lead with Sharvanand as his son and exposed the nexus between netas and businessmen. It was a money-spinner down South and bagged three Filmfare awards. A spokesperson from Sanjay’s production house confirmed the news.