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Chennai Express director Rohit Shetty to direct film for Sanjay Dutt’s production house

The <i>Chennai Express</i> helmer is the second filmmaker,after Prabhudeva,to be roped in by Sanjay Dutt Productions.

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Director Rohit Shetty has agreed to do a film for the production company of actor Sanjay Dutt,who is currently in jail.

The Chennai Express helmer is the second filmmaker,after Prabhudeva,to be roped in by Sanjay Dutt Productions.

“Rohit Shetty will do a film for Sanjay Dutt’s production house. The film will go on floors in 2016. We are yet to decide on the genre,the subject and actors for this (untitled) film,” a sources said.

Dutt,54,is currently in Pune’s Yerawada jail,where he is serving his remaining three years and six months sentence in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. In Dutt’s absence,his wife Manyata is managing the production house.

Rohit Shetty and Sanjay Dutt have worked in a comedy film,All The Best.

Shetty,currently one of the top notch Bollywood directors,has previously made mass entertainers like Golmaal series and Singham. His latest venture Chennai Express,an action-comedy film features Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead,is set for August 9 release.

A few days back,Dutt’s firm had signed choreographer- director Prabhudeva for a project.

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At presently,Sanjay Dutt Productions is working on Hasmukh Pighal Gaya,a film being directed by debutante Sejal Shah.

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