Sanjay Dutt (full name Sanjay Balraj Dutt) is a famous Bollywood actor who stars in films in Hindi. Sanjay is the son of Indian movie stars Nargis and Sunil Datta. Winner of several prestigious Indian Cinema Awards.
The main role in the film "Rocky" ("Rocky"), where the actor played a boy named Rocky, who turned out, by the will of fate, in a foster family, brought the artist fame and glory.
Dutt’s creative biography has more than one hundred and seventy roles in television and film projects. The star of Bollywood cinema continues to work actively in new projects. In the next two years, he will appear on the screen in at least five films.
Facts from the biography
The boy was born in India in the summer of 1959. Born into a family of famous actors, Sanjay from early childhood was immersed in an atmosphere of creativity, and his future fate was a foregone conclusion.
Parents chose the name of the born firstborn with the help of their fans. Nargis is the boy’s mother, while she starred in the movie Sanjay and fans of the actress advised calling the child the name of the main character of the picture. So the boy received the name Sanjay.
Sanjay is the eldest son in the family. He has two sisters: Priya and Namrata. From birth, all children were surrounded by constant attention, care and love from their parents and immediate relatives.
Sanjay followed in the footsteps of his famous parents and began an acting career. Priya later went into politics. Namrata married actor Kumar Gaurava, but she did not become an actress, devoting herself to the family and raising children.
Film career
For the first time in the movie, Sanjay tried to act at the age of eleven. The debut was a cameo in the film, where his father played.
The young actor got the main role in the film "Rocky" ("Rocky"), again thanks to his father, who acted as the director of the picture. The stars of Indian cinema were shot in the film: Rina Roy, Tina Moonim, Ranjit. Sanjay perfectly joined the cast and after the film was released immediately became famous. From that moment on, Dutt's acting career began to skyrocket.
New films with the participation of Dutt began to appear on the screens annually. Huge success brought him a role in the film "Name", where he played together with her younger sister's husband Kumar Gaurava.
Due to the colorful appearance, the actor often played the role of negative characters. He even got the nickname "Deadly Dutt."
In the early 1990s, the actor had serious problems with the law. He was accused of possession of weapons acquired from a person related to a terrorist organization. A lengthy trial convicted him in 2005 and Sanjay received a prison term. During the consideration of the case, the actor was allowed to continue acting in films and several times released on bail.
In 2013, the case was again considered by the court, the prison term was reduced. Dutt was finally released in 2016, and a year later he reappeared on the screens in the new film Bhumi.
For some time, Sanjay tried to build a political career, following the example of his father, who became a fairly well-known politician in India after stopping work in the cinema. True, neither his father nor his son had such a career.
My father resigned due to political intrigues, and Sanjay, having been the General Secretary of the Socialist Party for a year, was completely disappointed in politics and returned to creativity.
