Why Sanjay Dutt and Amitabh Bachchan didn’t shoot a single scene together in Shootout at Lokhandwala: ‘Big B left at 5:30 pm, Sanju only came at 6pm’

Apoorva Lakhia revealed that he had to use their body doubles to shoot their scenes. “We used their body doubles while Suniel Shetty and Arbaaz were right there with them. All the scene that you see of them in the film, we have shot in just two days. We shot about 30-40 scenes a day,” said the filmmaker.

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He also shared that this was possible only because Amitabh Bachchan always came prepared with his lines while Sanjay Dutt reassigned all of his lines to his co-stars Suniel Shetty and Arbaaz Khan.

He said, “Amit ji knows his lines and Sanjay Dutt would come, see the script, assign the lines to Arbaaz and Suniel because he couldn’t memorise it. At the end, after five pages all he says is: ‘Are you going to sue me?’ And suddenly Arbaaz and Suniel are all terrorised that they have lines with Amit ji. Sanju sir is like that. Always gives away his lines.”

Shootout at Lokhandwala also starred Vivek Oberoi, Tusshar Kapoor, Rohit Roy, Abhishek Bachchan, and Dia Mirza in important roles.