Nargis, mother of Bollywood star, Sanjay Dutt had foreseen the troubles that Sanjay would get into and wanted her daughter Namrata to make sure that Sanjay stayed away from some of his friends whom she felt were having a bad influence on him.
“Please look after Sanju, see that he does not get mixed up with those silly boys again. He is too stupid in his head, he does not realise what he is doing and  (I) know it is going to hurt him,” wrote Nargis to Anju, as Namrata is fondly called by the family, while going to US for her treatment.
Talking about the fear and pain of the realisation that she might just have to leave her family behind forever, Nargis wrote, “I am in such a mental condition, I have gone far away from all of you, and I don’t know what is going to happen but I have faith in God, he is not going to be so cruel as to not send me back to all of you. I know how much all of you love me, keep praying for me that all will be well with me.”
The letters are part of a forthcoming book written by Priya, Namrata along with some contribution by Sanjay Dutt titled, ‘Mr and Mrs Dutt, Memories of our Parents’ and is scheduled to be released by Roli Books later this month.
In a letter to Sanjay after he was sent to a boarding school, Nargis asked him to concentrate on his studies and keep doing well without even giving a chance to teachers to get angry at him.
“Now you have promised to do even better and I promise I will come and see you every month. You know you are our only son and we have great hopes in you. You must study hard and become a big man so that you can look after us in the old age,” she wrote.