Nargis
Died
On
May
3,
1981
Of
Cancer
Just
Before
The
Release
Of
Sanjay's
Film
Rocky.
"Sanjay
had
not
cried
when
his
mother
died.
It
had
been
three
long
years
since
Nargis
had
passed
away
but
Sanjay's
wounds
were
still
festering," Usman
writes.
Sanjay
was
at
that
at
a
drugs
rehab
centre
in
the
US.
Father
Sunil
Dutt
sent
him
some
tapes
of
Nargis
talking
during
her
final
days
so
as
to
help
him
in
his
rehab.
Here’s
How
Sanjay
Dutt
Reacted
To
His
Mom's
Tapes
"When
Sanjay
got
the
tapes
from
Sunil
he
had
no
idea
what
was
on
them.
He
pressed
play
and
suddenly
the
room
was
filled
with
Nargis's
voice.
He
remembered
his
childhood,
when
his
mother's
voice
would
reverberate
through
the
Dutt
mansion,"
the
book
says.
His
mother's
voice
was
weak,
broken
and
in
immense
pain.
But
Nargis
still
spoke
of
her
dreams
for
her
beloved
son,
and
gave
him
some
gentle
advice.
Here’s
What
Sanjay’s
Mom
Had
Recorded
In
The
Tapes
"More
than
anything,
Sanju
Keep
your
humility.
Keep
your
character.
Never
show
off.
Always
be
humble
and
always
respect
the
elders.
That
is
the
thing
that
is
going
to
take
you
far.
And
that
is
going
to
give
you
strength
in
your
work,"
Nargis
said.
Sanjay
heard
his
mother's
voice
and
realised
how
much
she
loved
him
and
cared
about
him.
And
Then..
Sanjay
Dutt
Cried
For
Four
Days
"I
burst
out
crying
and
I
cried
and
cried
I
cried
continuously
for
four
days
.
.
.
I
think
till
then
I
hadn't
grieved
for
her
when
she
passed
away.
So
her
voice
and
those
tapes
changed
everything
in
my
life,"
the
book
quotes
Sanjay
as
saying.
That
Incident
Was
The
Turning
Point
Of
Dutt’s
Life
"He
knew
that
he
had
to
rebuild
his
life.
For
a
moment
he
felt
his
mother
had
come
back
from
the
dead
to
save
him.
The
incident
was
a
turning
point
in
Sanjay's
life.
His
mother's
weak
yet
loving
voice
cast
light
where
there
had
been
darkness.
Confident
that
his
mother
was
watching
over
him,
Sanjay
started
to
take
his
treatment
seriously.
The
healing
truly
began,"
Usman
writes.
According
To
The
Author,
Sanjay's
Life
Is
A
Story
Of
Epic
Proportions..
He
goes
to
describe
other
titbits
like
almost
a
decade
before
the
1993
Mumbai
serial
blasts
case,
Sanjay
was
involved
in
a
shooting
spree
in
posh
Pali
Hill
for
which
he
was
even
arrested.
Also
he
once
smuggled
heroin
into
the
US
and
at
the
height
of
his
addiction,
one
evening
he
hallucinated
that
his
father
Sunil
was
melting,
and
on
another
occasion
that
his
sister
Priya
was
a
gurkha.