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Jeena
Isi Ka Naam Hai
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Episode
: Sanjay Dutt
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(
April 5, 2002 - 9 pm on ZEE TV)
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These shows
are entertaining and unique tributes to India's best known,
loved and admired celebrities, where the story of their life
unfolds through family, friends, colleagues and others who
have been close to the them. Each show is an entertaining,
memorable and emotional "surprise party" which takes
a look back at their lives like never before and celebrates
not just the success of the celebrity, but also the joy of
living itself. The shows include chats with the stars' nearest
and dearest, clippings from rare home videos, rare moments
from photo albums and nostalgic "re-visits" to locations where
the stars have happily spent their time in early days. The
series is anchored by acclaimed actor and genial host Farooque
Sheikh.
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Sanjay Dutt's first guests
are his nearest and closest - his younger sister Priya and his
father Sunil Dutt. Farooque is almost in a dilemma about who
the episode should be on. Both father and son are legendary
stars in their own right, only they belong to different generations.
But it's Sanjay's day today! Farooque chats with Sunil Dutt
about Sanjay's childhood and we see some rare baby snaps of
Sanjay which have the guests and audience engrossed! "The audience
has seen me in the nude!" complains Sanjay.
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Farooque then
calls up his next guest. A voice calls out to Sanjay from
backstage, he appears puzzled at first but then quickly places
it. It's actually Nargis's niece, Zaheeda (also an actress
herself) who is a mother figure to Sanjay Dutt. The meeting
is emotional. Zaheeda speaks how Sanjay would want her to
be glamorous when she came to pick him up at school because
Nargis would dress plainly. She also talks about how sensitive
he was as a boy and recounts an incident when Sanjay threw
a tantrum when a boy made scratches the Dutts' car and was
slapped by the Dutts' driver. Sanjay, even as a young boy
made sure they went back to see if the boy was okay.
We
next see rare clips of Sanjay Dutt as a child with mother
Nargis, watching which is emotional for both father and son.
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We return from
a break to hear about Sanjay's alma mater, Lawrence School,
Sanawar and see a clip of the school and it's surrounding
as well as its students today wishing Sanjay their best and
asking him to keep the Sanawar flag flying high. In come his
friends from school, Sarabjeet and Rajiv. They chat about
their mischief at school - there's plenty of that to go around!
Next we see a video message from Dayanita Singh who has been
tying a rakhi to Sanjay since school, when Sanjay would
pay her a two rupee note for the festival! She jokingly demands
a better gift for next rakhi. Then we have Sanjay's
friend and senior from school take us around for a glimpse
of Sanjay's favourite haunts in Kasauli, the town near school.
A surprise is round the corner for Sanjay - his favourite
teacher from school days, Mr. Joshi. Mr. Joshi used to be
a tough teacher but he looked after his students well, Sanjay
tells us. Mr. Joshi recounts an example of Sanjay's mischievous
and amusing antics where Sanjay and friends were caught poaching
fish from a river! We return from the break to a video clip
of Sanjay playing the drums for his school band, and the rock
band Parikrama comes in to play Sanjay's favourite song -
Santana's Black Magic Woman. And then pressed on by the audience
and Farooque, Sanjay plays a couple of beats on the drums
himself to relive his school drumming days.
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We move on
to Sanjay's first entering films. This actually happened when
Sanjay was only twelve, in Sunil Dutt's Reshma Aur Shera where
he appears in one shot in a qawali. We next have a
message from Roshan Taneja under whom Sanjay trained for an
year before joining films, and see a clip from the movie that
was his debut - Rocky. There are poignant moments when Sunil
Dutt recounts that the premiere of the film was on only three
days after Nargis died.
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| Sanjay
and his father also open up to talk about his problem with drugs
and his courage in being able to come out of that as well as
to put behind him the time when Sanjay was arrested under TADA.
The Dutt family speaks about that traumatic time when Sanjay
was confined to an 8 by 8 foot cell, and Priya recounts a touching
incident about Sanjay saving up his prison coupons to pay her
for rakhi when she meets him in prison with great difficulty
for the festival. She still has the coupon kept with her carefully
and shows it to us. One thing becomes clear - Sanjay has learnt
from his mistakes and emerged stronger. Mahesh Bhatt is the
next guest, the director of Naam, one of Sanjay's best performances.
We see a clip from the movie itself and Mahesh Bhatt tells all
about how Sanjay has been a close friend who has supported him
and helped him out of an alcohol problem. A break later we meet
with Sanjay's closest friends today - Sanjay Gupta (film-maker
and Sanjay's business partner), Afsal Khan (producer and director)
and Punkej Kharbanda (who is also his manager).
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Next in is
Sanjay's gymming partner Ajay Arora. And then we have a video
message from good buddy Salman who recounts a funny incident
about clean-shaving one of Sanjay's arms just before a shoot!
We return from
a break to see a message from Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Farooque
introduces the man who's now giving Sanjay Dutt in a new image
- in comedy. David Dhawan enters and speaks about his association
with Sanjay (which runs back to the time when David edited
films - his first edit was a Sanjay Dutt movie).
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Mahima delivers a video message
to Sanjay in her true upbeat style and recounts an incident when
he dropped her by accident!
The next guests are Mahesh Manjrekar
and Namrata Shirodkar, director and co-star from Vaastav, a movie
which has fetched perhaps the maximum acclaim for Sanjay Dutt as
an actor. We see a touching clip from the film which has a sterling
performance from Sanjay.
Back from a break we have a big
pleasant surprise for Sanjay Dutt - one of his first crushes from
school that he wanted to hold hands with - Kusum Bhambhri. After
a while, Sanjay does manage to recognise her! We then have an emotional
video message for her father from Trishala, Sanjay's daughter who
is in the US. He then speaks with her over the phone as well, as
do Sunil Dutt and Priya. It's time for the final Jeena snapshot,
where everyone gathers together for a unique photograph. If there's
one Star's life that has had it's ups and downs, from the tragic
to the ecstatic and yet revealed that life is all about living,
it's Sanjay Dutt's. Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai.
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