Sanjay Dutt reveals that the spark for Khalnayak Returns came in jail: "I asked 4000 inmates to send me one-pager ideas"; reveals golden advice given to him by a hawaldar: "The day you stop hoping, you won’t even realize how time will fly in jail"

Actor-producer Sanjay Dutt, Aksha Kamboj, Executive Chairperson of Aspect Global (Aspect Entertainment), Subhash Ghai and Jyoti Deshpande of Jio Studios announced Khalnayak Returns at an event in Mumbai. Sanjay Dutt revealed that he’ll be producing the second part of the cult 1993 film under his banner, Three Dimension Motion Pictures. During the Q-and-A session with the media, he also opened up about his jail time in the 90s.

 

Sanjay Dutt reveals that the spark for Khalnayak Returns came in jail: "I asked 4000 inmates to send me one-pager ideas"; reveals golden advice given to him by a hawaldar: "The day you stop hoping, you won’t even realize how time will fly in jail"

 

Sanjay Dutt revealed, “I got the thought of making Khalnayak part 2 in jail (smiles). I used to play music inside the prison. The inmates used to insist only on the songs of Khalnayak. I asked them, ‘Agar Khalnayak phir se banaye, toh kaun dekhna chahega?’. All 4000 prisoners said in unison that they would love to see it. I told them, ‘Send me a one-pager idea of the film’. It took me a lot of time to read 4000 pages! One of the ideas that I got appealed to me.”

 

He continued, “I was out on parole and I called sir. I narrated that idea to him. Subhash ji also got excited and he said ‘Banni chahiye’.”

 

A journalist asked whether he was desperate to get out of jail while serving his sentence. The veteran actor admitted, “100% I felt that many times. After all, who wants to be in jail? I felt that many times. Then, one hawaldar told me, ‘Sanju baba, the day you stop hoping, you won’t even realize how time will fly in jail’. I said, ‘Kya mazaak kar raha hai’. He insisted, ‘Aap try karo. Stop hoping that you could get out quickly or wait for the day you’ll be free’. It took me a while, but I tried. The day I stopped hoping, mujhe pata hi nahin chala ki jail ka waqt kab kat gaya.”

 

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