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Bratty Sanju Baba to lovable Munna Bhai

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canada goose outlet store new york In a chapter dedicated to Munna Bhai MBBS (2004) towards the end of this book Sanjay Dutt’s Biography: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’ Bad Boy, Yasser Usman writes: ‘From the bratty Sanju Baba, he became the lovable Munna Bhai.’ canada goose outlet store new york

The painful process of this metamorphosis is a fit subject for one of Sanjay Dutt’s 1980s style potboilers. (A biopic on him, Sanju, starring Ranbir Kapoor in the title role, is slated for releases later this year.)

What emerges from this narrative, however, is not merely a morality tale about a spoilt star kid gone wrong and his reformation, but also a history of the changing landscape of Bollywood as well as political and social life in India.

canada goose kensington parka uk Usman, also the acclaimed biographer of Rajesh Khanna and canada goose outlet toronto factory Rekha, explains his motivation for writing this goose outlet canada book pretty early on: ‘I wanted to try and explain what makes a bad boy.’ canada goose kensington parka uk

In the Introduction, he writes: ‘I explored Sanjay’s childhood for clues his boarding school days, his relationships with his mother, father and sisters, his early years in the film industry. But there are some things you just can’t explain.’

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When Sunil Dutt met his son at the Mumbai police crime branch’s Crawford market office after the latter’s arrest in 1993, he heard Sanjay’s confession and asked: ‘Why?’

Usman writes: ‘Sanjay answered: canada goose outlet shop “Because I have Muslim blood in my veins. I could not bear what was happening in the city”.’

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As revealed elsewhere in the book, Sunil Dutt had received threat calls for his canada goose outlet store charity work among Muslims, and Sanjay Dutt often claimed that he had acquired machine guns from Dawood Ibrahim’s brother because he expected Hindu fundamentalists to attack their Pali Hill bungalow.

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His father was a Congress member of Parliament; his mother Nargis had been celebrated as the icon of Nehruvian ideals after the historic Mother India (1957).

canada goose factory outlet Usman’s research is thorough. He has tracked down Sanjay Dutt’s friends and teachers at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, and provides details of even the punishments he received for flouting the strict code of discipline at the institution. canada goose factory outlet

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Usman, however, makes no attempts to justify Sanjay Dutt’s misogyny. He provides the star’s most distasteful quotes without edits.

For instance, Sanjay Dutt justifying why he canada goose outlet store uk did not want his wife/girlfriend to work in films: ‘I would not like to come in the evening to find out that she has gone to do a night turn. if you just want to call me a chauvinist, I’m just one.’

A strange comment indeed from the son of actors and one who has dated leading ladies canada goose outlet uk Tina Munim, Madhuri Dixit of the industry.

Like the true patriarch, he also thwarted, we are told, his daughter Trishala’s ambitions of working in films.

‘Trishala wanted to be an actress and I canada goose black friday sale wanted to break her legs,’ Sanjay Dutt is quoted as saying.

canada goose outlet ottawa Nor does Usman mince words about Sanjay Dutt’s rather mediocre filmography: ‘In a career spanning more than a hundred films, Sanjay has only around ten noteworthy movies, a poor average by any standard.’ canada goose outlet ottawa

IMAGE: The cover canada goose outlet online uk of Sanjay Dutt’s Biography: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy, which the movie star has rejected as gossip.

canada goose clothing uk Usman also correctly points out that some of his best work is merely an extension of his rather colourful life, be it Khalnayak (1993), released soon after he was arrested, Vaastav (1999), where he plays a cocaine snorting, gun loving gangster, or the Munna Bhai films, which Sanjay Dutt’s PR machinery utilised to the hilt to recast his image as the reformed bad boy canada goose outlet online canada goose clothing uk.

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