If close buddies of Dutt are to believed the actor has made up his mind to marry Manyata the minute he's out of his legal wrangle.
In the meanwhile Dutt has gone into a tangent. He has worked out a rapprochement between his buddy Sanjay Gupta and his estranged wife Anu.
Long in the pipeline, the reconciliation had been eluding the love-lorn Gupta only because of his wife's reluctance to accept his changed stance on marriage and commitment...until Dutt stepped in. On the day Gupta's autobiographical flick Alibaug was launched Dutt took Gupta's wife to a corner and chatted earnestly for an hour. That, apparently, has done the trick.
Gupta's wife is finally thawing.
In seventh heaven Gupta immersed in directing a huge cast of friends posing as actors on the set of Alibaug admits it's Dutt who's done the seemingly impossible. "Sanju is the happiest about me getting back with my wife...and he's largely instrumental in bringing her around."
Dutt thoroughly dispproved of Gupta's relationship with Sameera Reddy and threatened to break their 15-year friendship if he carried on with a relationship that was hurting Gupta's marriage.
Says Gupta, "It's true Sanju didn't approve of me seeing Sameera. In fact he told me point-blank for the first time that he won't be in my film if she was in it.He has always been very fond of my wife and thinks she's the best thing to happen to me. I agree. Sanju did speak to her at length. And you know no one can resist his charms."