Just wanted to fire it a few times and throw it away: Sanjay on infamous AK-56

Mumbai: Sanjay Dutt is not one to shy away from being unabashedly candid.

Even recently, there were reports of the much adored actor ridiculing Ranbir Kapoor at a private party, over his ‘goofeball’ image, iterating he needs to ‘macho up’ if he is to play Sanjay in Rajkumar Hirani’s biopic.

At a Young FICCI Ladies Organisation's event, where he was accompanied by sister Priya Dutt and Pooja Bhatt, he revealed his motive behind possessing the AK-56 gun in 1993, which eventually would lead to his grueling incarceration at the Yeravada Jail.

“I love guns and I love hunting. I got into trouble for having a gun and at that time, there were riots going on. One of my producers asked me, 'Tujhe bandook chahiye?' Bandook sunn ke mere kaan khade ho gaye. I asked which gun? And he said AK-56.

"I thought I would take it to Khandala, thoda chala vala ke phek dunga. I kept it in the car dicky and forgot about it and went to Mauritius. When Priya called me, asking about it, I told a friend to get rid of it. He got rid of it, but the poor guy is still in jail,” a leading daily quoted him as saying.

Sanjay, who’ll make a grand comeback to movies along with Saiyami Kher in Omung Kumar’s ‘Bhoomi,’ also spoke about his substance abuse and his subsequent painful yet adamant withdrawal, at the event.