Sanjay Dutt today is a reformed man and a rigorous jail term has done that to him. At a conclave last week, the actor spoke about what jail did to him. “A jail term doesn’t only take away your physical freedom. It imprisons your thought processes. You’re no longer free to sit how you want,stand how you want…,” Dutt revealed.
Sanjay Dutt today is a reformed man and a rigorous jail term has done that to him. At a conclave last week, the actor spoke about what jail did to him. “A jail term doesn’t only take away your physical freedom. It imprisons your thought processes. You’re no longer free to sit how you want,stand how you want…,” Dutt revealed.
Dutt was asked harsh questions of his alleged crime including if he regretted keeping ammunition on his property during the bomb blasts? Was he treated special in jail because he was a celebrity? Did all his friends from the film industry abandon him after the alleged terror links? Did he give his father Sunil Dutt a harrowing time? But the actor came clean on every topic as nothing can embarrass him today – not even from references to toilet habits, and certainly not talking about how unpalatable the food in jail was. “The best place to lose weight is jail,” joked Dutt, adding he had gone into prison with a potbelly but came out as fit as a fiddle. Not that he was allowed exercise equipment. Dumb belles were forbidden since prison authorities felt he would use them to kill himself.
But while Dutt is not recommending jail as a substitute to the gym, he does recommend reading of the holy scriptures for those serving prison time. While doing time he had through the Mahabharat, the Bhagavat Gita, the Ramayan and Lord Shiva. He has come out of prison a Shiva Bhakt and a diehard champion of prison reforms.
Today Dutt feels very strongly about the archaic laws that govern prison conduct, which go back to the British days.
To cite an example of how demeaning some of these rules are:
1. Every time a prison authority made his rounds Dutt and the other prisoners had to squat on the floor like bonded labourers were known to do before zamindars.
2. Space is the biggest problem in prison. According to Dutt during sleeping hours there are brawls breaking out among inmates for changing their sleeping position.
What he seriously recommended were drastic reforms in prison protocol. And he is working towards those. Dutt has shown a keen interest in working towards prison reforms with the government.
There is also very serious talks of his prison experiences being put into book form. If Dutt delves into his prison time to create awareness about what prisoners have to face inside then he would do the nation a great service.
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