Ranjeet recalled how he met Sunil Dutt and Nargis and went to a party at their house on his second day in Mumbai. He said he was surprised to see Nargis serve meat at 2 am as he thought of her as ‘Mother India’ and assumed she would be resting instead.
Ranjeet said on Timeout with Ankit, “Some friends of his (Sunil Dutt) had come home, and she (Nargis Dutt) would make this dish called ‘Matka Gosht’. I was new there; it was only my second day in Mumbai. Till about 2 in the night, the food kept getting heated and then I heard her voice, she scolded us and all of us stood up. ‘Chalo kitna piyoge? The food won’t be heated again and again.’ Then everyone went inside! I was fortunate that I met them.”
Ranjeet recalled, “I remember when I was in the house, Suni Dutt sahab served me meat. I told him I don’t eat non-veg, but he said Mrs Dutt has cooked it for us with her own hands. He joked, ‘So what if you are a vegetarian? Even the goat would eat only grass.’ When I saw Nargis, standing at 2 in the night, ready to serve the guest.”
He mentioned, “I couldn’t believe a big heroine like her was doing this. In my head, she was the Mother India star, and I thought she’d be resting at night, but no, she was awake and serving everyone, calling her helper to put tadka in the daal and then personally serving all of us. I couldn’t believe ki Nargis ne parantha diya hai!”
Nargis married her ‘Mother India’ co-star Sunil Dutt in 1958. Nargis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1980 and passed away a year later. Soon after that, their son, Sanjay Dutt made his Bollywood debut in Rocky.
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