Born in a family studded with stars like Sunil Dutt and Nargis, Sanju Baba did not have to compete with the limelights of stardom. The happy days as a kid were accompanied with the constant pressure of being a very successful star couple’s son.
He had a loving and caring mother in Nargis until she left him a few weeks before the release of his acting debut Rocky, which went on to become a superhit. The pain of losing his mother pushed Sanjay Dutt into the inconscious arena of drugs.
Sanju himself admitted, “I saw my father struggling, and my mother struggled to survive. And she went through a major surgery. We saw how she was. I was big enough to realise and then came my drugs phase…”
Soon after that, Sanjay got stuck in the illegal possession of weapons under the Arms Act. The incident triggered after the 93’ Bombay Blasts.
Sanjay was arrested on the 19th of April, 1993. This marked the end of a youthful Sanju. Thereafter, he spent 18 months of his life as a thoughtful man behind the bars.
Finally, he got bail on the condition that he will have to appear on every hearing of Tada court. Helpless Sanjay got some relief. The outer world was waiting to stone the big man down. With Shiv Sena activists leading the protests against him, it took the head of the political party, Bal Thackeray to calm things down.
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