there is nothing more comforting for filmmaker sanjay gupta than returning to his pet genre of movies the gangster dramas the writerdirector who completed 25 years in the business last year celebrated his birthday on april 14 with his family at his khandala home of course the day was neatly divided primarily between his duties for his forthcoming film john abrahamemraan hashmi starrer mumbai saga and towards his kids and family who are with him at his residence at the hill station since before the lockdown set in on march 25the authorities are extremely strict here which is a plus everyday they have been making surveys of the neighbourhood to ensure no one has left or arrived they have maintained a proper record which is great as for my birthday we had a lot of fun together indoors i have two of my closest friends in khandala who joined us for the celebration says sanjay the year is extremely special for him sanjay will mark his comeback to the gangster genre after making films like jazbaa and kaabil talking about it he says im feeling like im home there was a time when ram gopal varma was fairly active on the scene and he made some amazing gangster films but for many years this genre has been lying neglected it will be difficult for people to remember one good gangster drama after shootout at wadala 2013 and im not trying to boast right now im just doubly happy working on mumbai saga which has just six days of shoot left and the dialogue drafts of shootout 3 the gangwars of bombay with rajat aroraa mumbai saga which was originally slated to release in june this year is special in more ways than one sanjay has collaborated with two of his oldtime colleagues for the music of the drama set in 1980s and 1990s anu malik has composed the songs of mumbai saga which narrates the story of the era in which key incidents led bombay to become mumbai nikhil chinappa who has previously collaborated with sanjay on several of his films will be creating edm versions of two songs in the film the album despite the films period does not have remixes or recreations sanjay says while working on the music of this film i realised that the current generation of composers is great with love songs but not the kind of songs that form a strong part of the mumbai saga album i didnt find that spark in them to come up with something like goli maar bheje mein or aala re aala manya aala i chatted with my wife anu and it made me realise that i should go back and work with people who have given me the best songs in my career i approached anu malik the man has worked extremely hard to turn in five crackling numbers plus ive not been to clubs in about a decade now so i dont know what