In recent years, Patel worked with pop singer Michael Jackson and Mark
Damon of MDP Worldwide to set up the production company Neverland
Pictures.
He was credited with combining Hollywood and Bollywood in the first
Indian movie shot entirely in the United States using an American crew
and modern Hollywood technology.
Worked with Joe Roth on Bachelor Party, his breakout film, and with
Stephen Sommers on Jungle Book, his own breakout film
Working on 1001 Arabian Nights at the time of his passing