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What the world knows about Sanjay duty is only half-truths. best-selling author, film producer and renowned journalist Ram Kamal Mukherjee unravels the enigma and stigma surrounding Sanju Baba. There can be no last word on Sanjay Dutt. Ever. Even as he walks a free man after more than three decades of prison terms and controversies, Dutt remains a classic case study in all that defines the ‘star’ system in Hollywood industry known for its deep-rooted sense of entitlement. However, there is one question that dominates: who is the real Sanjay duty? Is he a man who has been ‘wronged by the media’, as his friend and filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani wants everyone to believe? Is he a son who could never recover from his mother’s death? Is he a son whose father political leanings made him an easy target? Or is he a myth, created by a consortium of film journalists, industry insiders, political fiends and adversaries? Delving deep into both the man and his circumstances, Sanjay Dutt: one man, many lives tells the Uncut, untold and uncensored story of Sanjay balraj duty. What emerges is an accountant much about one man’s laudable efforts to keep reinventing himself, as it is about his privileges. Privileges that were seldom earned and always taken for granted. This is the closest anyone can ever come to understanding Sanju Baba.
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Sanjay with former wife Rhea Pillai
Sanjay put his wife on a public pedestal, according her the kind of respectability and status that would silence his detractors—for a while, at least. He spoke of how his wife was a grounded girl who reminded him of his mother. A simple, domestic person, who made it worth the while to come home after living like a gypsy.
Manyata was everything that his previous women were not. She was also everything he seemed to want at that stage in his life. She compensated for her lack of pedigree, finesse or glamour, by being someone who was completely devoted to him and put his well-being over everything else—even if it cost him his old friendships and closest relationships.
His sisters did not attend the wedding.
Sanjay Dutt
Those were also the days when the underworld called the shots in the film industry. Quite literally. Films were funded by the mafia and stars were obliged to make appearances at events hosted by gangsters—especially in Dubai. Said Sanjay, ‘It was at this time that a producer asked me if I wanted a gun ’ One casual remark led to another and the star, who was then at a professional high with a gym-fresh sculpted body and a string of commercial successes, suddenly had an AK-47 in his hands. A fact he has admitted to, repeatedly, but always defending his intent-self preservation and protecting his family.
But that was not all. Dutt was accused of accepting a delivery of weapons at his house from notorious gangster Abu Salem and his co-accused Riaz Siddiqui, who had also been implicated in the blasts. It was claimed that the weapons formed a part of a large consignment of arms connected to the terror masterminds.
Sanjay Dutt with father Sunil Dutt and sisters Priya and Namrata
History says star-sons have always played hopscotch with their fathers’ legacies. Sanjay Dutt was no exception. While his devotion toward his mother has been well established, not enough has been documented about how he spent his childhood living in the shadow of a father who, in modern parlance, would be described as tyrannical.
This may be incomprehensible for those who remember Sunil Dutt as the stately gentleman; the soft-spoken, kind-hearted, earnest and upright citizen; the social worker and devoted husband. But even the finest of men and husbands do not always make the best of fathers.
The world would not come to know about what really went on in the Dutt household, had it not been for a sensational interview of Sanjay Dutt by Stardust many moons ago, which first seeded the idea that his reckless, self-destructive behaviour was probably a result of bad parenting.
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