Sanjay Dutt: India's hope, India's shame
His parents were Bollywood royalty, embodying new hope for a newly independent country. His mother, Nargis was a Muslim while his father, Sunil Dutt, was Hindu. They met on the set ofMother India, a film from Hindi cinema's golden era, filled with sacrifice, heartache, and dreams for a new nation. When there was a fire on set, Sunil rushed in and saved Nargis. Their love story and mixed marriage came to symbolize all the good things that were possible for India. Little did they know their son Sanjay would follow them into films, becoming one of Bollywood's biggest stars.
Dynasties are common in Bollywood. However, being charged with weapons possession in the wake of terrible, bloody Hindu-Muslim tension is not. Sanjay was found with guns given to him by the same Mumbai gangsters behind the deadly 1993 serial bombings that killed 257 people and injured 713. The bombings were motivated by religious tension. Dutt, born out of a Hindu-Muslim union, claimed he needed the weapons to protect his family. The courts didn't buy it, and he was eventually sentenced to six years in prison. After years out on parole, a judge last month ordered him back to jail. His parents, mercifully, are no longer alive to see the tarnish that covers their own "golden boy" born in a "Golden Era."
I have no words fr thios man..his parents were gem..he was gievn a very gd life by his parents..his mom nargis ji even left acting to take care of kids...
I have always felt Sunil dutt ji cld never come out iof trauma of sanju baba being sent to jail for illegal possession of rams..
Nw that suporeme court has given him sentence goid knws if he wld be able to come out scott free..
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