MUMBAI: Actor Rishi Kapoor was one of the first ones to welcome Munnabhai back on Twitter, who walked out a free man after spending 42-months in prison. “Welcome back to the grind! Make some memorable movies now!” Rishi Kapoor posted on Twitter. The Khalnayak actor left for Mumbai after his release
Actor Sanjay Dutt has been released from Pune’s Yerwada Jail after serving five-year sentence in a case related to the 1993 Mumbai blasts on Thursday. Tweets from his colleagues and friends from Bollywood poured in for Munnabhai, who walked out a free man after spending 42-months in prison.
Industry veteran Rishi Kapoor, who has co-starred with the 56-year-old actor in movies like Agneepath, Pyaar Mein Twist and Raju Chacha, was one of the first ones to welcome him on Twitter:
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday tried to link the release of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt from Yerwada Jail to the religion the latter practices.
Referring to journalist Rana Ayyub’s tweet which termed the release of Dutt as ‘Hypocrisy’, Owaisi tweeted, “What if his name was Siddique Baba. Everything goes back to religion or religious practices one does or ‘adopts’.”
In her tweet, Ayyub had tweeted, “When other 93 blasts co accused are damned and shamed for life, our ‘Sanju baba’ gets a heroes welcome #Hypocrisy.”Sanjay Dutt, today, completed his 42 months term in Pune’s Yerwada jail after being granted remission in his five-year sentence.