61-year-old Sanjay Dutt has lung cancer, a third stage or advanced stage, which is considered the highest risk. Sanjay Dutt has not suffered from cancer for the first time. 39 years ago, he has lost his mother Nargis due to cancer. Sanju Baba has been the beloved of his mother Nargis. Nargis died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer. At that time Sanjay was just 22 years old.
On 2 August 1980 Nargis became ill during the Rajya Sabha session. Initially, he was diagnosed with jaundice. After this, she came back to Mumbai and enrolled in Brechkandi Hospital. But her condition did not improve for 15 days. And the weight also kept falling fast. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Nargis was treated in New York. Even after her return to India, her condition did not show much improvement. She went into a coma on 2 May 1981 and died the next day.
After being diagnosed with cancer, she used to worry a lot about his son Sanjay. When she was going to America to get treatment, she expressed her concern for Sanjay by writing a letter to Sunil. She wrote- ‘Take special care of my son keep that in mind that Sanjay does not fall into bad habits again’. She died in Mumbai on 3 May 1981. After this, the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation was created in 1982 for cancer patients in memory of Nargis.
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Richa Sharma, Sanjay Dutt’s first wife also died of cancer. Richa had a brain tumor. She married Sanjay in 1987 and within two years of her marriage, she had a cancer diagnosis. She underwent cancer treatment in London for a long time. Richa died in 1996 due to cancer. At the same time, Sanjay Dutt went to jail in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case.
Sanjay Dutt posted a video in his memory on Instagram on the 91st birth anniversary of mother Nargis Dutt. In this video, many important stages of his mother’s life were shown. Her life as an actress, sometimes a wife, and sometimes a mother has been beautifully portrayed. Posting this video, Sanjay wrote Happy Birthday Mother, Miss You.
