House of Cards

He may be the archetype action hero – yet, in a conversation lit by wit and candour, we discovered that Sanjay Dutt is also a man who can take life’s rough knocks with rare grace.

There’s no taking away from the undoings that have come to mark his life, but in a conversation rich with insight, humour and a complex inner life, we discovered a face of Sanjay we hadn’t seen before – from the poignant aside that his father had never hugged him till he went to jail, to the fact that it was Indira Gandhi who suggested Sunil Dutt send him to boarding school, a decision that in Sanjay’s words “made a man out of me”.

Also in the conversation were guns, beef, Bal Thackeray, underworld dons, solitary confinement and his three wives – but we won’t attempt to repeat all that was shared onstage. If you were there, you know already that this was a special evening. If you weren’t – watch the full session above to glimpse the charismatic world of Sanjay Dutt.