Sanjay Dutt Is Not The Real Problem.

Power and glamour go hand in hand. Power backed by money needed to sustain glamour is a nasty combination. This is what they had in Bollywood back in the day. Money needed to make movies came from underworld which is turn was protected by politicians. Nasty stuff that. Dawood Ibrahim was the de facto ruler of the whole show. What bhai wanted, bhai got. Some actors associated with him and his ilk because they had no choice. Others did because they wanted to. Sanjay Dutt may have belonged to the second category.

Now the problem with Dutt was that he came from a very privileged background and he fancied himself as a tough guy / cowboy. He was a young man living in the world of glamour and political power (thanks to his father) where he started to believe in this make-believe world where he was invincible. He thought that he could get away with it. As they say, “umr ka takazaa tha”. Unlike a regular daydreaming youth who deals with his own kind of people, Dutt was dealing with hardened criminals; maybe unbeknownst to him. Of course all this is conjecture. I do not know anything about the guy other than the fact that he has never struggled to make a living, has no talent and would not be where he is if it were not for his father.

What is clear is that this guy is no terrorist. Not the brightest of bulbs, he has made a lot of foolish and terrible choices in life but he is not a jihadi. But as we see clearly is that he is getting punished (and very rightly so) for crimes he has been found guilty of. However, this is all a big “nautanki”. Think about it. No one who was really guilty has been even caught, let alone punished. The only big fish they are going to fry here is Tiger Memon’s brother. I am glad that someone from that family is going to pay for it.

Until the Indian government can get to the terrorists hiding in Pakistan or Bangladesh, or their sympathizers in India (SIMI / Madani / Owaisi / Zakir Naik) kind of people or those politicians who used to be or are still on the payrolls of the underworld, this whole thing is going to be a “Bandar ka naach”.

Sunjay Dutt is a bad actor, a privileged brat who refuses to grow up, a debauch (how many times has he been married?) and a fool with a penchant for making bad choices but he is not a terrorist. However, he is going to pay for sins of lot of others who are still walking free.