/> A funny thing happened to Viviek Oberoi a few days ago. Carried away by the whole hype surrounding his portrayal of the real-life gangster Maya Dolas in Shoot-out At Lokhandwala, Viviek decided to take a large group of tv journalists and camera crew to meet the real Maya's mom.

On the way Viviek's eyes fell on an interview in a tabloid (Mid-day) with Amrita Singh who plays his mom in the film.

"Viviek immediately decided to turn back. He knew there was going to be trouble from Maya's mom. And that's exactly what happened," says the Shoot-out .... producer Sanjay Gupta.

Even before the film releases the true-life story of a group of gangsters who were gunned down by the Mumbai police force in 1991, has opened up a Pandora's box.

The mother of the slain gangster Maya Dolas, played by Viviek Oberoi in Sanjay Gupta's Shoot-out At Lokhandwala, is up in arms against the film.

Reacting to an interview given to a city tabloid (Midday) by Amrita Singh who plays Maya's mother, the real-life Maya Dolas's mom has sent Sanjay Gupta's production house White Feather an eloborate legal notice challenging Amrita's contention that the real-life Maya was encouraged and abated by his mother to become a gangster.

Gupta in his forthright way doesn't deny the latest devlopment vis-a-vis his volatile film. "It's a fact that the real Maya Dolas's Aai has sent us a lengthy legal notice. She has reacted adversely to Amrita's interview especially to the part that says she encouraged Maya to become the person that he was.

My legal deapartment is looking into her legal notice. I'd like to say in my film's defence that the lady hasn't seen the film."

Does Gupta deny the fact that a lot of the events described are from the real-life gangsters' characters? "I don't deny that at all.

Certainly we have taken extensively from real-life incidents surrounding the actual shout-out in 1991. But we've built on the real events and taken them into hypothetical situations.

For instance the cop in-charge S.S Khan (played by Sanjay Dutt) is shown to be having a marital problems. The way we look at his life, the couple are on the verge of a break-up. Obviously no such thing happened in real life. We certainly don't want the real Mrs Khan to slap us with a legal notice."

Incidentally if true, Shoot-out... wouldn't be the first film to to show a mother supporting her son's gangsterism. Sanjay Gupta's first directorial venture Aatish did the same many years ago.