Sanjay Dutt on Munnabhai, music and more

FAMILY HERO: Dutt says playing different roles excites him most about being an actor.

      

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He’s one of Bollywood’s most popular actors and a much-loved star. On To Catch a Star this week, CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand chats with Sanjay Dutt.

Rajeev Masand: Why are you so shy when it comes to talking about yourself? Interviews are not your favourite things about being an actor, right?

Sanjay Dutt: Right. I don’t know why I’m shy. But I’ve always been like this.

Rajeev Masand: You have just presented an award to the team of Munnabhai, the Hrishikesh Mukherjee award for a socially relevant comedies. It’s interesting that Munnabhai is a family comedy and is very different from the other comedy films you have done, like the David Dhawan comedies. Do you wonder how you will go back and do those kind of comedies?

Sanjay Dutt: It’s a different genre and it is interesting to do them once in a while. He has his own slot and his films are much like Jim Carrey’s first few, which made no sense but was a laugh riot. So it’s interesting.

Rajeev Masand: Would you feel guilty to go back and do one of the naughty comedies which parents would not like kids to see, especially after Munnabhai which has made you a sort of family hero, isn’t it?

Sanjay Dutt: It has made me a family hero but which comedies are you talking about?

Rajeev Masand: Shaadi No. , perhaps?

Sanjay Dutt: There was nothing vulgur about it and it was a different genre. So it’s interesting.

Rajeev Masand: Are there films that you cannot now believe you did?

Sanjay Dutt: Yes. There are a whole lot of films like that. In the early 80s the ballgame was very different. There were films where I was kicking 10 people and all that stuff.

Rajeev Masand: What are the films you think define you?

Sanjay Dutt: There are a couple of them: Naam, Saajan, Sadak, Khalnayak, Vaastav, Kaante, Mission Kashmir, Munnabhai, of course. Also, Zinda, I don’t know why people did not recognise it but it was a very intense and powerful film.

Rajeev Masand: When you are making a film, do you know how it is going to turn out?

Sanjay Dutt: Absolutely. As an actor, you do come to know about it. In the first schedule itself you come to know how it is going and whether it is exciting.

Rajeev Masand: So what when you a know a film is going wrong midway? Is there a way to salvage the film?

Sanjay Dutt: Yes, it has happened to me a couple of times where we have sat down as a family and we have tried to work it out and it has worked sometimes.