In a fit of drunken defiance Sanjay Dutt told a tabloid journalist that he's married to his girlfriend Maanyata. Now a morning after he is denying the news stating that if he was married, he would announce it to the world.

"All these are just rumours, there is no truth to them. If I were married, I shall announce it to the world and in fact the media will be the first to know," sais Sanjay Dutt.

"I have got so many calls since morning about this and I am tired of telling people that any talk of my marriage is false," he adds.

Tinseltown was abuzz with talk about Sanjay's marriage to Maanyata aka Dilnawaz Shaikh after a tabloid carried a front page story quoting the actor as saying that he had married her on November 19.

But no one knows that the Dutt family is strongly opposed to this match. According to an insider, the Dutt family is up in arms against Maanayata.

Like everyone in the film industry, the Dutt sisters have heard about Maanayata's dubious past. But they made an effort to be polite to her for Sanju's sake, although they didn't think much of her.

Maanayata aka Dilnawaz Shaikh belongs to a conservative upper class family and is working in her family's textile business. She had also done an item number in the Prakash Jha film Gangajal.

Sources say Dutt is very fond of Maanyata , whom he first met through a common friend, producer Nitin Manmohan. She is said to have stood by him through the trial and the verdict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

A family friend also reveals that Maanayata is to be blamed for the attitude of the Dutt sisters towards her.

Things soured on the day of Dutt's conviction. Namrata and Priya wanted to accompany Sanju to the court as they didn't know if they would see him again after the verdict. But Nitin Manmohan made sure Sanju went off for the hearing with Maanayata in his car.

The duo were also photographed at a recent awards function, entering and leaving the venue together. Sanjay has been married twice before, first to Richa Sharma, with whom he has a daughter Trishala and later to model Rhea Pillai.