On Sanjay Dutt’s last day in jail yesterday, there was one dramatic moment when his real and reel lives seemed to merge. As he began his daily show on the prison radio one last time, he played the song Chithhi aayi hai from the 1986 film Naam, in which he plays a youth desperately missing home. It seemed a fitting song to play on the day before he could return home a free man.

Sanju returns: Sanjay Dutt will be released from the Pune prison today after he was granted remission in his five-year sentence. File pic