His next film was Risk in which the same actor plays an errant police inspector with Vinod Khanna as villain.
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Heavily influenced by Ram Gopal Varma, he made his directorial debut with D, which is about the meteroic rise of a fictional underworld don, Raj ( played by Randeep Hooda), which appears to be loosely based upon Dawood Ibrahim's career ( though Sawant denies it).