• My guest today is one of Hindi cinema’s most versatile, durable, and talented actors. Not just that, he’s perhaps one of the most controversial, and yet lovable. Sanjay Dutt, welcome to Walk the Talk. It’s been a long time.

Thank you, Shekhar.

• I’d have added one more adjective — one of the most shy. Why so shy?

I have always been like that, very shy and quiet.

• Except while performing.

Absolutely. Otherwise, I’m pretty shy. I talk a little less. And journalists complain.

• I’m sure they do. In fact, even when I was preparing to chat with you, everybody told me, ‘He doesn’t talk.’

No, no. We’ll talk today.

• And walk your talk.

Yes sir.

• These have been tough times for you. How do you cope?

I believe in God. I believe in my family, myself. I believe in the people of my country. And when I look around, I see that so many people love me.

• You believe in the judiciary?

Absolutely. Total belief in the judiciary.

• What’s your day like? When do doubts assail you in the course of a day? And what do you do when doubts hit you?

Nothing. I’m so busy with my work. I get up, have my breakfast and I am off for shooting and things like that. And you know it’s such a creative world that we don’t have time for doubt. I mean, it’s like we don’t have time for doubts, we are always in the scene, or we are improvising, or we are trying to do something better. The day goes by like that. Then I come back and I go to my gym. I work out. Be with my family after that.

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