Sanjay Gupta was growing crime thriller CIU as his net collection debut

Few issues excited Sanjay Gupta as a lot because the prospect of helming a riveting crime thriller. And the filmmaker had zeroed in on one such topic earlier than his sudden demise on October 30. mid-day has learnt that he was growing the display screen adaptation of the true crime thriller, CIU: Criminals in Uniform, written by investigative journalists Dr Sanjay Singh and Rakesh Trivedi. Gupta, who would have made his net collection debut with it, was planning it as an eight-part collection.

Talking to mid-day, Singh revealed that the filmmaker had approached Naseeruddin Shah, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, and Dia Mirza for the collection. “Sanjay Gupta held a number of conferences with us and had ready an elaborate pitch deck. He was in discussions with Anil Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Akshaye Khanna, Emraan Hashmi, Atul Kulkarni, Mahesh Manjrekar, and Ronit Bose Roy. His ambition was to create one among India’s most star-studded net collection.”