Celebrity wife Manyata Dutt is known to the world as the third wife of senior Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. Her whole identity is that she is Dutt’s wife. Well, not many know that Manyata herself was an actor and done a B-grade film before taking the marital vows with Sanjay Dutt.
Born as Dilnawaj Shaikh in a Muslim family, Manyata always dreamed to become a top heroine. However, as her career didn’t take off as she had expected, she started working in B-grade movies to sustain in Mumbai. That’s when Manyata met Sanjay Dutt and they started dating each other. Two year later, in 2008, Dutt and Manyata married in a private ceremony.
Sanjay Dutt was aware that Manyata had already done a B-grade film by the time he married her. In order not to damage the reputation of Dutt family, reportedly he had bought the entire rights of that film for Rs 20 lakh, a huge amount for a B-grade film at that time. He even made sure that all the CD’s of the film were pulled out from the market. Even after all these efforts, he was worried that the film may surface on internet in future but fortunately, it didn’t.
Despite Manyata is 20 years younger than Sanjay Dutt, they have been happily married for close to a decade now. They have twin sons, born in October 2010, together.