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This is no Galib ki shayari it’s our very own Sanju baba’s shayari for his wife, Manyata while he was in prison. Apart from working on cane items, paper bags and radio jockeying at the Yerwada Central Jail, Sanjay Dutt also penned down his life experiences, which has now taken a shape of a book.
The 56-year-old actor, who recently walked out a free man after serving jail term following his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, wrote over 500 ‘sher’ (couplet) along with two inmates and now he plans to release the poetry collection in form of book titled Salaakhein.
I wrote something. And I will release the book, Salaakhein. We will show it to some people (publishers). Me along with, Zeishan Qureshi, Sameer Hingle (inmates) and wrote 500 sher they were with me in radio station. It is all in Hindi.Sanjay Dutt
The Lage Raho Munna Bhai star said out of the 500, he has written about 100 couplets and has also given words to some of the real life instances, like when his wife, Manyata visited him in jail.
“Out of the 500 sher, I must have written 100 or so. At times I feel surprised that have I actually written this. I remember my wife had come to meet me once and she was having fever and still she came to see me. I had insisted she should come to meet me. I felt very bad after seeing her,” he said.
“Then I wrote a sher.
But writing is not something that actor is willing to take up. He is waiting eagerly to get back to the routine life of ‘lights, camera, action’.
“Let me be with my family... I want to be with them for some time. I missed working. I missed light, sound, camera, action flashes and all,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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