Saturday, July 28, 2018

A note on Sanju

This is little late as a movie was released a few weeks ago, and I think this was an attempt to damage control, fix the image, took the terrorist label off and portray Sanjay Dutt's personality in a positive way. I will not be surprised if he himself paid for this movie or director did this out of friendship.

Above said, in the end, this movie turned out to be more of a tribute to his father Sunil Dutt who despite against all odds of life, stayed firm in his character. Fighting life with son turned into a drug addict, wife dying of cancer, taking flakes for supporting and protecting minoriy as a city leader after Mumbai blasts, getting called a hidden Muslim as he was born in Pakistan, before partition. {This was actually a payback as Dutt's family was saved by a Muslim friend during 1947 migration}.

Though it was not mentioned in the movie Nargis fall in love with him and remained his true love till the end as he saved her from a raging fire broke out during the making of the film 'Mother India', another aspect of his brave character.

I had a discussion about his strong character with one of my friends. Sunil Dutt was born and raised as a farmer near Jhelum, Pakistan. Is this true that people who are more near to soil have more strength to their character in contrast to urbanites/city dwellers? 

3 comments:

bsc said...

Yes I agree and I have been impressed with him too and of Sanjay also Yes I have read about all Sanjay's stories But you also know that Sanjay;s mamun Nazir Husaain was Muslim Nargis remained more Hindoo probably because of the different fathers of Nargis and Nazir Hussain Jaddan Bai had those relations and was the one who encouraged her daughter Nargis to take up acting as profession
Jaddan Bai name suggest of those times with lose character women or frank prostitutes and they were attracted to take up filmi profession although DevikaRani type well known women were highly educated women

bsc said...

Not Nazir but Anwer Hussain
There was a time we wanted annual medical conference in Srinagar (Islamic Medical Ass of NA) and Sunil Dutt was supporting us but politically we lost that opportunity as they were afraid of "Muslims"
Instead we held it in Heuston Texas (1988 or 89)

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