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29 March 2024

Did Sanjay Dutt really deserve four-weeks of extra freedom?

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By Staff

Even as Bollywood celebrates the news of actor Sanjay Dutt’s four-weeks of freedom, there are rumours that the decision was unwarranted.

According to some media houses, the actor has finished his pending movie work and doesn’t actually deserve the extra time.

The Indian Supreme Court had awarded him an extension to his jail deadline based on ‘humanitarian grounds’, while earlier rejecting similar pleas from another 70-year-old co-accused in the case.

Sanjay had appealed for a six-month extension to finish his pending movie work.

An Indian daily quoted an insider; “One is not too sure what needs to be completed since all the pending projects with Dutt have been more or less completed.

“In fact, Emraan Hashmi and Aamir Khan, who are Sanjay’s co-stars in ‘Peekay’ and ‘Ungli’, went out of their way to accommodate Dutt’s schedule before time ran out.”

Even producer of another Sanjay-starrer ‘Policegiri’ , T P Aggarwal claims the actor has finished his work for them.

“Sanjay’s work on my film is more or less done. Whatever is left can be managed without him,” he is quoted as telling the Indian media.

Some claim the plea for an extension had more to do with his family time than movie commitments.

Another co-star, whose identity wasn’t revealed by the media, claimed the actor’s desire to spend more time with his twins and family could’ve prompted this request.

His loyalists, however, claim that there is still a lot of work for Sanjay to complete.

“Yes, about eight days of shooting is left with Sanjay Dutt,” confirmed ‘Peekay’-director Raju Hirani.

Other movie projects that Sanjay is involved in include ‘Zanjeer’, for which he has been dubbing since his March 21 conviction, and ‘Policegiri’.

It is reported that close to INR300-crore is riding on him.

Sanjay was awarded five-year jail term for illegally possessing weapons in a case related to the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts.

Since he has already served 18-months of his sentence, he will only clock the remaining three-and-a-half years now.