Dia Mirza and Sanjay Dutt have collaborated several times on the big screen and now she is part of a film which is based on his real life. She has played Sanjay Dutt’s wife MaanayataDutt’s character in Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju. Being a co-star, Dia knew Sanjay but when she heard the script of Sanju, she was surprised and felt that she didn’t know the actor. She said, “I have heard things that I have not heard before. After doing the film I feel more connected with Sanjay Dutt than I ever had.”
Dia, we hear, knows Maanayata since the days of Lage Raho Munnabhai. She said, “Jab Hum log Lage Rahe Munnabhai ki shooting complete kar chuke the, I think at that time I had gotten the opportunity to interact with Maanayata. And of course over the years I have interacted with her.”
Talking about playing her in Sanju, the pretty actress said, “Whenever I get an opportunity to play a character, the one thing that we hope to achieve as an actor is to be able to empathise with what that person has experienced in their real life. And when people like Raju sir and Abhijaat Joshi write a script then that ability to empathise with the reality of the situation increases manyfold.”
Sanju is Dia Mirza’s second film with Rajkumar Hirani after Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006).
