Scoop: Sanjay Dutt opts out of Blockbuster?

The no-show of Bhoomi seems to have made Sanjay Dutt a cautious actor.  He fears he may be treading on landmines and is looking at scripts more closely than he would before. Though he embarked on Torbaaz last December, there has been little progress on that count because (much as he and others around him may have denied it) Sanju apparently wanted the script to be made sharper.

Recently, he walked out of director Abhishek Verman’s next for producer Karan Johar, in which he was to share screen space with Madhuri Dixit-Nene after 21 years. And he followed this exit act by reportedly walking out of Blockbuster, which was to be helmed by his old friend Lovel Arora (better known as Bittu). Our source reveals, “When Sanjay met another producer friend recently, he was overheard saying that the multi-starrer comedy Bittu was planning, isn’t happening anymore. He has opted out of Blockbuster and the film is on the backburner for now.” 

However, after exiting Abhishek Varman’s film and Bittu’s directorial debut, it now seems like Sanjay is keen to get Torbaaz back on track. Predictably, the film’s producers are overjoyed. The prodigal has returned. Like they say, it all worked out in the end.