Sanjay Dutt - Personal Life

Personal Life

Dutt was born on 29 July 1959 to a Punjabi family of Bollywood megastars Sunil Dutt and Nargis and was educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar near Chandigarh. Dutt married the actress Richa Sharma in 1987. Sharma died of brain tumour. The couple have a daughter, Trishala, born in 1987, who lives in the United States with her grandparents, following a custody battle with Dutt after the death of his wife. Dutt's second marriage was to model Rhea Pillai in 1998. They divorced in 2005. Dutt married Manyata (also known as Dilnawaz Sheikh) in 2008 at a private ceremony in Goa, after two years of dating. On 21 October 2010, he became a father to twins, a boy named Shahraan and a girl named Iqra. He is well known for several altercations with the law, along with many other controversies throughout his life, as well as drug addiction in his early years. He spent 5 months in prison in late 1982 after being caught in possession of illegal substances, upon his release he spent 2 years in the United States, the majority of which was spent in a Texas rehab clinic before returning to India and resuming his career.

He was head over heels about Madhuri Dixit while shooting for Khalnayak. Madhuri is said to have been reciprocating feelings for him as well. Sanjay Dutt was about to propose her but he was arrested and Madhuri continued to focus on her career as she was on the peak. It is said that if he has proposed her, Bollywood would have experienced one of the biggest weddings of all time.