Sanjay Dutt's biography: The crazy untold story of Bollywood's bad boy

Sanjay Dutt's biography is a portrait not only of the Khalnayak, but also the changing fabric of Indian society

In a chapter dedicated to Munna Bhai MBBS (2004) towards the end of this book, Yasser Usman writes: “From the bratty Sanju Baba, he became the lovable Munna Bhai.” The painful process of this metamorphosis is a fit subject for one of Sanjay Dutt’s 1980s-style potboilers. (A biopic on him, Sanju, starring Ranbir Kapoor in the title role, is slated for releases later this year.) What emerges from this narrative, however, is not merely a morality tale about a spoilt star-kid gone wrong and his reformation, but also a history of the changing landscape of Bollywood as well as political