{"id":215745,"date":"2026-01-04T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:05:08","slug":"paparazzo-recalls-sanjay-dutts-equation-with-photographers-calls-him-a-messiah-baba-would-ask-do-you-drink-and-then-force-us-to-drink-with-him-hind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215745\/","title":{"rendered":"Paparazzo recalls Sanjay Dutt\u2019s equation with photographers, calls him a \u2018messiah\u2019: \u2018Baba would ask, ‘Do you drink?’ and then force us to drink with him\u2019 | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paparazzo Over the years, Sanjay Dutt<\/a>\u2019s interactions with the paparazzi have frequently gone viral\u2014sometimes for his trademark swag and humour, and at other times for his unfiltered, moody outbursts. From joking with photographers and asking for \u201cmasala\u201d to sternly telling them to go home and celebrate Diwali with their families, Dutt\u2019s equation with the media has remained unpredictable and candid.A particularly well-known video from a Diwali party, which resurfaces almost every festive season, shows the actor losing his temper and verbally confronting photographers. Another clip from 2017 captured him humorously offering alcohol to media personnel, while a 2018 video showed him using expletives while addressing the bosses of photographers. Now, paparazzo Varinder Chawla has recalled several such moments while speaking to Siddharth Kannan. <\/p>\n

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\u2018Baba would ask, \u201cDo you drink?\u201d and then force us to drink with him\u2019<\/p>\n

Recalling Sanjay Dutt\u2019s larger-than-life presence on set, Varinder shared an anecdote that left him laughing. \u201cMany times, Baba would call us over during his shoots and ask, \u2018Oye, idhar aa\u2026 do you drink?\u2019\u201d he said.Explaining how the situation would escalate, Varinder added, \u201cIf we said no because we were working, he would insist, saying, \u2018I feel like you drink.\u2019 Others would back him up, and he would then force us to drink with him. We had no choice.\u201dHighlighting Dutt\u2019s influence, he said, \u201cHe\u2019s such a big celebrity that even non-drinkers would end up sitting and drinking with him.\u201dVarinder laughed as he summed up those moments, saying, \u201cWe would sit outside his house and drink with him.\u201d The anecdote echoed several viral videos from the past where Sanjay Dutt is seen casually engaging with photographers during private celebrations.<\/p>\n

\u2018I thought I would get beaten up, but he said, \u201cLet him go\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Despite his occasional public confrontations with the paparazzi, Varinder described Sanjay Dutt as a kind and protective figure in his own life, even calling him a \u201cmessiah.\u201d Recalling a defining incident, he said, \u201cAt one point in my career, I bought a second-hand Maruti Zen.\u201dNarrating what followed, Varinder said, \u201cOnce, while Sanjay Dutt was shooting at Filmistan, I clicked his pictures and was about to leave when I accidentally hit his vanity van while reversing.\u201dHe added, \u201cHis people immediately surrounded me and demanded money. The cost of my car wasn\u2019t even close to the damage they claimed. I was sure I was going to get beaten up.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u2018At that moment, he felt like my messiah\u2019<\/p>\n

Varinder recalled how the situation turned around the moment Sanjay Dutt intervened. \u201cWhen Sanjay Dutt came down and asked, \u2018What happened?\u2019 I told him I had hit his van,\u201d he said.Describing the actor\u2019s response, Varinder added, \u201cHe turned to his people and said, \u2018Let him go.\u2019 At that moment, he felt like my messiah.\u201d Concluding the anecdote, Varinder said, \u201cHe has always been a very chill guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the years, Sanjay Dutt\u2019s interactions with the paparazzi have frequently gone viral\u2014sometimes for his trademark swag and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,130327,156,111,139,69,130325,10074,130329,130328,130331,130332,130333,130330,130326],"class_list":{"0":"post-215745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-interactions","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-paparazzo","15":"tag-sanjay-dutt","16":"tag-sanjay-dutt-drinking-stories","17":"tag-sanjay-dutt-messiah","18":"tag-sanjay-dutt-paparazzi-diwali-party","19":"tag-sanjay-dutt-paparazzi-moments","20":"tag-sanjay-dutt-viral-videos-paparazzi","21":"tag-sanjay-dutts","22":"tag-varinder-chawla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}