Kaante2 will be co-produced by actor Sanjay Dutt and Pritish Nandy Communications. Dutt looks quite excited and told Mid Day, “When Pritish came to me and narrated a line on Kaante 2, I flipped. It will be bigger and better than the original and will be one of the biggest action films shot abroad.

Sanjay Gupta won’t direct the sequel. We have a famous director on board.”

In addition to Sanjay Dutt, Pritish added, “Sanju had approached me first with Kaante. Gupta came on board later. Sanju and I have been planning Kaante 2 for a while. The idea is to use the original people in the cast, maybe barring Lucky Ali.

Though the characters died in the film we have devised a technique to use the same actors. The sequel will also have a few young stars to give the film a different texture. We plan to begin shooting early next year.”

The original was released in way back in 2002 starring Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Kumar Gaurav, Rati Agnihotri, Eesha Koppikar, Lucky Ali and Mahesh Manjrekar and directed by Sanjay Gupta. The film was said to be inspired rather than copied from Reservoir Dogs.