Sanjay Dutt enters the big league charging Rs 7-8 crores

Sanjay Dutt off lately has constantly hogged the media limelight for all the wrong reasons from court cases to marital issues. But finally the actor seems to be in news for positive reasons including his film signing spree. His upcoming films include EMI, Aladin and Kidnap . Also he is all set to tickle your funny bone with his spate of comedy films including one with Amisha Patel called Chatur Singh Two Stars , another to be directed by Ashwini Dheer and the third installment in Munnabhai series. But on the way Sanju baba has also realized that managing finances is no funny business and how.
Around a year back Sanjay Dutt used to charge anywhere between 90 lakhs to 2 crores for his films. But with the back-to-back success of Shootout at Lokhandwala and Dhamaal , his star value only got better. This was a time when he was in a position to hike his fees. Unfortunately for him this was the very phase when he was embroiled in all the legal hassles and also sentenced for a six-year imprisonment. This verdict by the court was a big blow to all his producers who were hugely banking on him for their films.
With his repeated attempts at getting bail and the multiple trails that he had to face, producers started losing hope on Sanjay Dutt and were skeptical to sign or consider him for their films. It was natural of them, as any financer wouldn’t want his project to be stuck up due to uncertainty of Sanjay Dutt’s availability. When everything should have been going right post his box-office success, Sanju on the contrary, was going through a very lean phase in his career.
To add to his problems was his fallout with long time good friend and colleague Sanjay Gupta. With the fallout he even separated himself from his production banner White Feather Films, jointly handled by Sanjay Gupta. Sources say that he trusted Gupta blindly and had only 30-40% shares in the company. With his departure from White Feathers, he only had to suffer more monetary losses. It was constantly reported in the media at that point of time that Sanju was in desperate need for money.
Every actor has a camp and so did Sanjay Dutt. But unfortunately his camp wasn’t of much help to him either. Says an industry insider, “Over the years Sanju has worked with his own set of producers and directors like Mahesh Manjrekar, Nitin Manmohan, Sanjay Gupta and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Now if you notice, Manjrekar is not directing any film as he is not considered a hot-shot director anymore, Nitin has stopped producing films, with Sanjay Gupta he has parted ways and Vidhu hasn’t yet started his film”.
However in his testing times, Sanju had some good friends like Suniel Shetty and Asthavinayak banner who were always by his side in his testing times. They showed faith in him despite his testing times and were optimistic that Dutt will come out on bail. And as luck would have it, Sanju did get bail. Post that he was entangled in controversies related to his marriage with his girlfriend of 2 years, Manyata. However Sanju emerged out unscathed from all these controversies.

Courtesy:movies.indiatimes.com

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