Best known for his work in the crime-drama genre, Indian filmmaker Sanjay Gupta died last Friday on October 30th. He was 57 years old. 

Gupta friend and fellow director Milap Zaveri confirmed Gupta’s death to the Press Trust of India, detailing an accidental fall as the cause. Local police have announced that Sanjay Gupta slipped in the kitchen of his home in Mumbai, suffering a major head injury.

Sanjay Gupta was inspired, as a filmmaker, by the works of Quentin Tarantino, particularly Reservoir Dogs, as well as The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, and City on Fire. Gupta’s film Kaante is often categorized as a remake of Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, though aesthetically and stylistically distinct. Tarantino himself once commented on his admiration for Gupta’s Kaante during the 2007 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, describing the film as “fabulous.” 

Gupta is also known for the films Kaabil, Aatish: Feel the Fire, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Karam, and Zinda, the latter of which is an unofficial remake of Park Chan-Wook’s action-thriller Oldboy. Gupta regularly casted the actor Sanjay Dutt who, on social media, mourned his lifelong collaborator and friend. Dutt announced the two were actually in discussions to make a sequel to Kaante, subsequently stating that he will make the film in Gupta’s memory.