"If Sunil had not been there, by March 8, I would have ended my life myself. Only I knew what trouble I was going through. I was completely broken. Sunil said, 'I want you to live and start afresh again.' ,
Nargis wrote these lines in her personal diary. Very few people know that Nargis used to write diaries regularly. Sunil Dutt kept those diaries with him for 20 years after Nargis's death. In the early 2000s, when writer and journalist Kishwar Desai was working on Nargis' biography, for the first time those diaries were taken out of the drawer and handed over to Kishwar. This was the first time when someone other than Sunil was reading, touching the pages written by Nargis. Nargis and Sunil Dutt's love story came to the world for the first time with such depth, breadth and complexity.
In 2008, from HarperCollins came Kishwar Desai's book Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt (Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt).
If you search Nargis's love story on Google, then many of your initial links will be such, which will be telling the love story of Nargis and Raj Kapoor. But the truth is that the way that story is told, it is far from the truth.
Imagine a 19 year old girl, who never found love in the house, who started working in films from the age of 13, started earning money and became a money making machine for her family, at that raw age that girl Whoever held his hand with love, looked up, the girl fell in love with him. She was very alone in the world. He needed love. Nargis tried to find that love in Raj Kapoor. But Nargis was one of his countless sweethearts for Raj Kapoor, who was already married, father of two children, who got respect, status, money in society. This love story is not at all like what Popular has told us till now. It was one sided love. There was one sided dedication, one sided allegiance. Nargis was ready to kill Raj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor would not even let his finger scratch for Nargis. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Raj Kapoor was just exploding that girl. did not love them.
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The girl who has done everything only for others in her life and no one has ever moved a finger for her, if someday someone jumps into the fire to save her life, then that girl will find it as impossible dream as Nargis Had felt
At that time he wrote in his diary-
"I always did for everyone, but no one has ever done anything for me. The family members are only concerned with my earned money. I always do everything for Raj and his family too. They don't do anything for me. Raj Kapoor can keep my life fresh by making me a mistress, but he will never hold my hand.
This incident is of March 1, 1957. The shooting of the film Mother India was going on near Surat in Gujarat. A scene was being filmed, in which a pile of straw caught fire and Nargis jumped into the fire to save her son. Sunil Dutt was playing the role of Nargis's rebellious son in the film. Everything was going well, then this accident happened. Suddenly the direction of the wind changed, the flames intensified and Nargis came in the grip of those flames. His clothes started burning. Seeing Nargis burning, Sunil Dutt jumped into the fire to save her. Eventually he brought Nargis out safely, but he himself was badly injured in this accident. After that both were treated in the hospital for a long time. Sunil Dutt's treatment lasted long because he was more injured.
Kishwer Desai writes in his book- "When Nargis was sitting next to Sunil Dutt's bed in the hospital, she remembered how Sunil, showing immense courage, dragged her into the fire. He felt as if some invisible force was pulling him towards Sunil Dutt. She was sitting next to him feeling elated. It has been a long time when anyone has made any sacrifice for them. She was there, who was always sacrificed on everyone. Be it Raj and his family or Nargis's own family.
That accident had brought both of them very close. After recovering herself and being discharged from the hospital, Nargis took great care of Sunil Dutt and shared every aspect of her life till now. Sunil was aware of every detail of Nargis and Raj Kapoor's relationship. He didn't hide anything.
Sunil Dutt knew the pain that Nargis was going through. He knew what the pain of loneliness and displacement is. The part of the Punjab province in which he was born had large mansions, lands and servants and one day suddenly the whole family had to leave their home and land and flee to India. The one who is burnt in the fire of partition, who has lost his family and has created a life from zero, it was not difficult for him to become one with someone's sorrow, loneliness. To feel it, to connect with it.
Sunil Dutt used to like Nargis before, but after this incident, their love became deeper. Sunil knew what pain and loneliness Nargis was going through. Now Sunil had a feeling of care as well as love for him. He wanted to get Nargis out of the bloody life sitting at the point of that double-edged sword. He wanted to love her by holding her hand. Wanted to give them Ek Ghar, Ek Rishta and a name for that relationship. From the age of 19, the one-sided exploitation relationship that the girl had been thinking of as love, Sunil Dutt's love told her what love is. How does it feel when someone really cares about you? How does it feel when someone makes some sacrifice, some sacrifice for you, when someone jumps into the fire for you without caring about his life.
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Nargis already knew what it is like to give love, but what it is like to receive love, she was first made aware of it by the boy who jumped into the fire to save her life. Now the mood of Nargis's diaries was beginning to change. She was starting to be happy. There was hope in the eyes, the cheeks were turning pink. For the first time in Nargis's life, love was knocking.
Everyone knows the story ahead of it. On March 11, 1958, both of them got married. He had three children. This together was only 23 years old as Nargis died of cancer on May 1, 1981. 7 days later, his son's first film Rocky was to be released. Lying on the bed, she would always tell Sanjay that I would definitely come to see your film, but it did not happen. A chair in the theater front row was kept empty on the day of the film's release. The mother was not there, perhaps the soul of the mother was present there.
What was Nargis for Sunil Dutt, what was this relationship, what was the meaning of life for both of them, the answer to this question is found in an interview of Sunil. A few days after Nargis's death, Tabassum was taking an interview with her for Doordarshan. When she was asking Sunil a question about Nargis, Sunil Dutt's eyes lit up. Throat was tight, words were not coming out of his mouth. Seeing his face on the screen, it seemed that how hard he had held back his tears.
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