His comedy Dhamaal featuring the all male cast made up of Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Javed Jaffrey and Ashish Chowdhary was stalled because of Sanjay Dutt's court case.

However, now that is behind him, Dutt is all set to shoot for Dhamaal again.

"He was supposed to shoot for us from Tuesday, but was indisposed. But now he's back," says Thakeria. Now that he no longer has to worry about facing TADA, Sanjay Dutt feels so much freer these days. With the sense of isolation and terror gone, the actor is all set to return to work.

Dutt returns to shooting this week with one of Sanjay Gupta's short stories in Dus Kahaniyaanwhich also stars Suniel Shetty. Hansal Mehta's Woodstock Villa also has him in a guest appearance produced by Sanjay Gupta.

Says Gupta, "The story in Dus Kahaniyaan to feature Sanju is tentatively entitled Rise & Fall. I hope to finish Dus Kahaniyaan by March 2007. But I've already started work on a sequel entitled Dus Aur Kahaniyan. The directors have gone back to the drawing board and we're already sourcing stories. Now with my vision already getting concretized in the first ten stories, more directors are agreeable to work on the short stories."

"He's far more relaxed now and looking forward to work." Gupta says of the actor.

However, Gupta's self-directed Alibaug, which stars Dutt in a role inspired by Gupta's car accident some years ago, has been postponed.