On Sanjay Dutt’s birthday, we look back at his’star’ appeal that never needed blockbuster movies.
Many pondered what made Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal’s protagonist Rannvijay a hero and why he appealed to so many viewers. Our daily lives may hold the answer. When Sanjay Dutt became famous in the early 1990s, he was notorious for his questionable choices, some of which got him in trouble. He was arrested for collaborating with terrorists, publicly abused drugs, divorced his first wife Richa when she was suffering from cancer, and had a tarnished reputation among his audience. However, Sanju remained one of the biggest performers of the time.
The terms ‘star’, ‘hero’, and ‘actor’ are generally interchangeable in India, and Sanjay has always been hailed as a ‘star’. His stellar reputation didn’t protect him from his problems, but it strengthened his myth. Sanjay grew up when celebrities gave unedited interviews and gossip newspapers published odd stories about them. Sanjay was not perfect, but he seemed honest and confused in his youth and attempting to fix his mistake.
