In Pictures – 8 Interesting facts about Sanjay Dutt

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Sanjay Dutt plays guitar very well and has won Gold medal for playing guitar in a competition in USA.

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In Nigeria, Sanjay Dutt is given a nick name - Dan Daba Mai Lasin by his fans.

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Sanjay was arrested under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act in April 1993, three weeks before the release of Khalnayak, due to terrorist interactions, and illegal possession of a 9mm pistol and an AK-56 assault rifle. After spending 18 months in jail, he was granted bail in April 1995.

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Sanjay Dutt was in relationship with Tina Munim but, the actress left him for his drug habits.

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Sanjay spent two years in the United States, the majority of which was spent in a Texas rehab clinic before returning to India and resuming his career. Sanjay Dutt said, "One day I had taken heroine and went to sleep. Woke up after sometime and was feeling very hungry. So asked my servant to get me something to eat. Seeing me he started crying and said that baba you have woken up after two days."

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Sanjay Dutt got addicted to drugs during his college days. His mother died in 1981, shortly before his debut film’s premiere; her death has been cited as the cause of his drug addictions.

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When Sanjay Dutt had come on the show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, Shah Rukh Khan was the host at that time. SRK had revealed that when he was new in Mumbai, he had a fight with someone, and had no friends in the city. Sanjay was the one who came to meet him in a jeep at that time and said, "If anyone touches you, you tell me." SRK said that Sanju is like a big brother for him.

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Here's an interesting incident from Sanjay Dutt's childhood narrated by Zahida Apa on a TV show. Once Sanjay's mother went to Marine Drive to pick him up from his school and met her friend Zahid Apa. Near a shop that sold masala milk, was a small kid drawing something near their car, when their driver Kasam slapped the kid and asked him to run away. Some time after they left, Sanjay started crying in the car, he was annoyed by Kasam mama. Sanjay's mother had to take a detour, find that kid, pacify him and offer him masala milk; only then Sanjay calmed down and they returned home.