People Respect Me Because I Didn't Run Away : Sanjay Dutt

He said, "I'd served out 18 months of the sentence earlier so I was entitled to furlough 6 months into my term this time. Every day hundreds of prisoners come out on parole and hundreds go back in, no one talks about them. Stardom is a double-edged sword. Anyway, I faced it all and finished it off."
Nattily dressed in a white shirt and blue jeans, Sanjay Dutt looks fighting fit and relaxed as he settles down to his first interview since stepping out of Yerwada jail on February 25. It's been six months since, and he's savouring his time with the family. Wife Manyata helped him stay connected when away through letters and would drive down to Pune once a month to meet him, not missing a mulaqat even when she was unwell because that would have meant waiting till the next month. "I don't know if I'd have done as much. She's made me realise how important a wife is. She's given me a home, two beautiful children, stayed strong and helped me stay strong," he tears up.
Sanjay however refused to let his kids, Iqra and Shahraan, visit him, not wanting them to have any memories of their papa in prison. But once they're older, Manyata and he have decided to tell them about it before anyone else does. "For now they are happy to have me back, papa se darr nahin lagta, he's not a disciplinarian. He only wants them to grow up to be good human beings," he says.