A news story is resurfacing in Indian media about a brawl between Bollywood actors Sanjay Dutt and Shah Rukh Khan, which became physical.
It happened at the Mehboob Studios in late 1990s, when the entire industry had taken out a protest against the Stardust magazine.
It was led by Amjad Khan even though he was very sick and could not even walk, but he was the president of the Cine Artists Association. Khan had just gained popularity but had not joined the morcha and was shooting in the same Studio. He walked down the makeup room and walked past Amjad Khan without even acknowledging him and when Sanjay saw that, he lost his temper and ran after Shah Rukh and held him by his neck, but some friends helped in the scene not turning ugly.
Recently in an interview, the KGF 2 star has revealed how difficult it was to bounce back from addiction, and how poorly he was treated after his stint in rehab.
In a chat with YouTuber Ranveer Allahabadia, he said that doing drugs was the ‘cool’ thing at the time. On how he ‘bounced back’, he said, “I had to make up my mind. What happens when you’re into intense drug addiction, you become a loner. I had become like that. I was a hard nut to crack, and I was at the rehab center for two years, which is rare. I couldn’t just accept that I was a drug addict.”
However, when he experienced fun activities with other patients at the rehab centre, he realised that he had missed out on a lot. “This is what life is, why was I missing that. Ten years of my life I was in my room, or in the bathroom, and not interested in shoots. But this is what life is, and that’s how everything changed.”
Talking about how he bounced back, he said, “When I came back, people used to call me charsi. And I thought, galat hai yeh. People on the road are saying this. Kuch karna padega. So I started working out. I wanted to break though that. And then from charsi, it became a guy with swag and ‘kya body hai’.”
On the work front, Sanjay will be seen next in Shamshera costarring Ranbir Kapoor and Vaani Kapoor.
