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Bhai embraces Ram!
Sanjay Dutt plays a modern-day Ram in "Rudraksh", releasing this Friday. Photo: R.V. Moorthy.
FOR A change Sanjay Dutt managed to move beyond monosyllables. Playing Varun, a spiritual healer in "Rudraksh", Mani Shanker's paranormal thriller being promoted as modern-day Ramayana, Sanjay calls the film a genuine attempt to do something different. "We go back to Ramayana days, courtesy Ravan's rudraksh, which has the power to possess. The film has 75 minutes of pathbreaking special effects. But it is not confusing, everybody can relate to the subject." The film has a sprinkling of Sanskrit shlokas and Sanjay confides that he had to cram them, as he doesn't know the language.
Known to change his hairstyles frequently, Sanjay is sporting two hairdos in the film. "It is the demand of the script. Suniel who finds rudraksh in the Lankan mines is after me so I have to change my looks."
Giving him company is Bipasha Basu as a scientist, who is studying paranormal powers, to whom he agrees to play the subject. "Doing the massage scene was fascinating, I won't mind to have a session with Isha Koppikar either," laughs Sanjay.
Munching chicken, Sanjay doesn't care that the bird flu is in news these days. "No deaths have been reported in India. There is no point in getting panicky."
The success that has been eluding the machismo of Hindi cinema after "Vaastav" has returned with the portrayal of compassionate don in "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S". Having played various shades of don, be it forced by circumstances types in "Naam", "Khalnayak" and "Vaastav", ruthless one in "Zehreelay" and "Khauff" or hyperbolic in "Plan", Sanjay finds Munna Bhai closest to his heart. "The character is an emotional guy and the film has a message. Besides, I loved the language of the film. You know, `iski to watt lag gayi mamu'. It was lovely."
Returning to "Rudraksh", if it's a take on Ramayana, and Suniel is Ravan then Sanjay has to be Ram. "Yes, I am in a way, Bipasha is Sita and Nitin Manmohan is the Valmiki," grins Sanjay.
Kalyug is here and how!
ANUJ KUMAR
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