Sanjay Dutt | Diwali goes Sanju

Sanjay Dutt - Diwali's personal thoughts about Sanju

Dear Sanju,

if someone had told me, say, two years ago that one fine day I would make a fan-site for an Indian actor (and even spend an entire annual vacation for translating this fan-site including my more than hundred film reviews from German into English), I would friendly but firmly have described the way to the next madhouse to him. And today I have to pay attention not to be declared mad myself by my friends and family who likely might send those men with these very unfashionable white jackets to my door...

I have nearly each and everyone of your films – and one day I'll find the 1989 Hathyar somewhere too (as my dear friend Sujen says I get a vole's abilities when I'm searching for special movies). Everywhere in my home you can find Sanju movie posters, and on my desk movie magazines from all years (bought via ebay) are piling up. From these magazines I’m collecting facts about your life, and I translate reports about you and interviews with you into German (for those of your German fans who don't understand English). I want to know as much as possible about you. No. I want to know all about you.

How did that happen?

How did I become a "Sanjupagali" (= crazy about Sanju)?

It started with Mission Kashmir. An actor I up till then never heard of spellbound me from the very first moment on. After Khalnayak I considered him amazing. After Parineeta I admired him for his versatility. And finally after Hum Kisise Kum Nahin I was completely in love with him: Sanjay Dutt. A versatile and charismatic actor who can play everything from the cold-blooded killer to his legendary "dons with heart" and to loveable comic roles. An actor who just by his eyes, his mimic art and his unique voice can express more than other actors by using all of their possibilities together. A man whose life since his childhood has been a roller coaster ride which left its stamp on his mind and soul and who without timidity openly shows his emotions in front of the camera. And a human being who despite his image as macho and bad boy kept his initially childlike soul – loveable, lonely and immensely vulnerable.

All this condensed more and more to my individual image of Sanjay Dutt. The more I learnt about you, Sanju, the more you captured my heart. You suffered so much in your life – catastrophies and crises, each and everyone in itself enough to break other people – yet you survived everything and with an inner strength I completely admire about you. And with a smile. With this wonderful warmhearted smile you’re enchanting the world with – not only since you’ve become its Munnabhai. As Shyam Pandharipande described it so perfectly at the beginning of 2007: "The infectious smile on his face, the pathos in his melancholy eyes, the common man's lingo that he so naturally mouths and his unassuming manners are the qualities that have endeared him to people."

Exactly. That’s it, Sanju. I love you not only because you are a fabulous and versatile actor, or because my brains nearly knock out when you as a dancer swing your hips or when I hear you singing (and you’re a terrific singer, right now I once again am listening to "Aapke Dil Mein") – or when I see your puma body as I call it after Gautam Rajadhyaksha’s description of your "puma gait" in his book "Faces". (By the way, I hope you are aware that your clip "Tere Siva Mere Siva" in Fateh was a well-aimed attack on my life!) But besides all that, I love you for the human being you are – with all your flaws (who doesn’t have any? just other people don’t share your greatness in admitting them so frankly) and especially with all your strong points: your honesty, your way of positive thinking, your emotionality, your magnanimity and your love which makes charity of all kind the most natural thing of the world to you and which makes you always being there for your friends and for people in need.

I’m feeling connected to you, Sanju – probably also because I’m just three and a half years younger than you and both of us lost both our mother and our father nearly at the same time (and like in your case, my mother also had pampered me and my father also was my pillar of strength in my life and my closest confidant after Mom’s death). Somehow you’re like the elder brother I always would have loved to have. And we have in common our way of positive thinking (not looking back and just looking forward) and our "you get a problem and you face it" mentality. Therefore – and of course also because I completely believe in your innocence and have no other wish that you finally get back your life and your freedom – I have been praying for you every evening since I seriously started occupying myself with your TADA case at the end of October 2006. I cried with joy and relief when you were finally acquitted from all the TADA charges on November 28, 2006. Unfortunately my prayers to save you from a new term in prison were in vain, but as I said right from the beginning: even if we should get to face the worst case – nothing could ever stop or diminish my love for you. Be sure I now love, admire and respect you even more and I will continue praying for you until you get back your freedom and your life once and forever. (And I will continue writing comments to the media which publish lies or rubbish about you – that's the least I can do for you.)

"For the heart beats for Sanju", as I said the day after your TADA acquittance in the Sanjay Dutt Thread of Marco’s Bollywood Forum (in a slightly modified Hindi way, I admit): "Phir Bhi Dil Hai Sanjustani" (as a consequence of this we Sanju fans in Germany call ourselves "Sanjustanis"). Amitabh Bachchan said in February 2007: "Sanjay Dutt has a unique personality. He is one of the most loveable human beings in the film industry." Who am I to contradict Big B?

I wish you lots of love and all the best, Sanju. Keep your strength – never forget that we’re there with you and always will be. May fate after all the ordeals you had to go through (and always finally emerged of as a winner and stronger than before) furthermore keep nothing but good times ready for you. May it grant to you all amounts of luck you deserve so much. And please, stay as you are – so that you can continue enriching my life as you do it now!

God bless you, Sanju!

Lots of Love and a big warm jadoo ki jhappi,
Diwali

Germany, August 2007


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I have nearly each and everyone of your films – and one day I'll find the 1989 Hathyar somewhere too (as my dear friend Sujen says I get a vole's abilities when I'm searching for special movies). Everywhere in my home you can find Sanju movie posters, and on my desk movie magazines from all years (bought via ebay) are piling up. From these magazines I’m collecting facts about your life, and I translate reports about you and interviews with you into German (for those of your German fans who don't understand English). I want to know as much as possible about you. No. I want to know all about you. How did that happen? How did I become a "Sanjupagali" (= crazy about Sanju)? It started with Mission Kashmir. An actor I up till then never heard of spellbound me from the very first moment on. After Khalnayak I considered him amazing. After Parineeta I admired him for his versatility. And finally after Hum Kisise Kum Nahin I was completely in love with him: Sanjay Dutt. A versatile and charismatic actor who can play everything from the cold-blooded killer to his legendary "dons with heart" and to loveable comic roles. An actor who just by his eyes, his mimic art and his unique voice can express more than other actors by using all of their possibilities together. A man whose life since his childhood has been a roller coaster ride which left its stamp on his mind and soul and who without timidity openly shows his emotions in front of the camera. And a human being who despite his image as macho and bad boy kept his initially childlike soul – loveable, lonely and immensely vulnerable. All this condensed more and more to my individual image of Sanjay Dutt. The more I learnt about you, Sanju, the more you captured my heart. You suffered so much in your life – catastrophies and crises, each and everyone in itself enough to break other people – yet you survived everything and with an inner strength I completely admire about you. And with a smile. With this wonderful warmhearted smile you’re enchanting the world with – not only since you’ve become its Munnabhai. As Shyam Pandharipande described it so perfectly at the beginning of 2007: "The infectious smile on his face, the pathos in his melancholy eyes, the common man's lingo that he so naturally mouths and his unassuming manners are the qualities that have endeared him to people." Exactly. That’s it, Sanju. I love you not only because you are a fabulous and versatile actor, or because my brains nearly knock out when you as a dancer swing your hips or when I hear you singing (and you’re a terrific singer, right now I once again am listening to "Aapke Dil Mein") – or when I see your puma body as I call it after Gautam Rajadhyaksha’s description of your "puma gait" in his book "Faces". (By the way, I hope you are aware that your clip "Tere Siva Mere Siva" in Fateh was a well-aimed attack on my life!) But besides all that, I love you for the human being you are – with all your flaws (who doesn’t have any? just other people don’t share your greatness in admitting them so frankly) and especially with all your strong points: your honesty, your way of positive thinking, your emotionality, your magnanimity and your love which makes charity of all kind the most natural thing of the world to you and which makes you always being there for your friends and for people in need. I’m feeling connected to you, Sanju – probably also because I’m just three and a half years younger than you and both of us lost both our mother and our father nearly at the same time (and like in your case, my mother also had pampered me and my father also was my pillar of strength in my life and my closest confidant after Mom’s death). Somehow you’re like the elder brother I always would have loved to have. And we have in common our way of positive thinking (not looking back and just looking forward) and our "you get a problem and you face it" mentality. Therefore – and of course also because I completely believe in your innocence and have no other wish that you finally get back your life and your freedom – I have been praying for you every evening since I seriously started occupying myself with your TADA case at the end of October 2006. I cried with joy and relief when you were finally acquitted from all the TADA charges on November 28, 2006. Unfortunately my prayers to save you from a new term in prison were in vain, but as I said right from the beginning: even if we should get to face the worst case – nothing could ever stop or diminish my love for you. Be sure I now love, admire and respect you even more and I will continue praying for you until you get back your freedom and your life once and forever. (And I will continue writing comments to the media which publish lies or rubbish about you – that's the least I can do for you.) "For the heart beats for Sanju", as I said the day after your TADA acquittance in the Sanjay Dutt Thread of Marco’s Bollywood Forum (in a slightly modified Hindi way, I admit): "Phir Bhi Dil Hai Sanjustani" (as a consequence of this we Sanju fans in Germany call ourselves "Sanjustanis"). Amitabh Bachchan said in February 2007: "Sanjay Dutt has a unique personality. He is one of the most loveable human beings in the film industry." Who am I to contradict Big B? I wish you lots of love and all the best, Sanju. Keep your strength – never forget that we’re there with you and always will be. May fate after all the ordeals you had to go through (and always finally emerged of as a winner and stronger than before) furthermore keep nothing but good times ready for you. May it grant to you all amounts of luck you deserve so much. And please, stay as you are – so that you can continue enriching my life as you do it now! God bless you, Sanju! Lots of Love and a big warm jadoo ki jhappi, Diwali Germany, August 2007
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