I know Ajay Devgn was disappointed: Sanjay DuttSanjay Dutt has injured himself while doing an action scene. There's a large bruise on his arm that his wife Maanayata is concerned about. He also has high fever and is as 'grumpy as a baby' the wife says. A candid chat with the actor-producer on his next home production, wife Maanayata, dosti with Ajay Devgn and his next film Agneepath which releases this week: Maanayata is turning producer soon? Yes, Maana will be producing the super-hit Telugu action film Badri. Maana has designed the new office in Bandra and now our house too. She does everything in a cost-effective way. She is also into designing jewellery. I have told her that she should bring out her own jewellery line. I offered the remake of Badri to Ajay (Devgn) as Rascals was a disaster and I owe him one. Is Ajay upset about Rascals? He hasn't told me but I know he was disappointed. He asked me to just forget it. You are an actor but have banned daughter Trishala from acting? Why? There's nothing wrong for a girl to be in the film industry. But my father ( Sunil Dutt) had a few rules about the girls in his family whether it were my sisters Namrata or Priya or their kids and they are very pretty girls too! They knew it right from the beginning that they can't even go that way. I want to carry my dad's legacy forward. When people ask me why can't Trishala be in films I will say just one thing - Trishala is my daughter and nobody can tell me what to do! They have no right to talk about it. First take care of your kids and let me take care of mine! Is Trishala is upset with your decision? She may have been upset but I am sure some day she will understand what I have done after she starts doing well in another field. She's graduated in forensic science which I always felt was a very dignified job. She wants to earn lots of money and I keep telling her that Rome wasn't built in a day. I hope some sense comes to her soon as she's a very intelligent kid. Maana is more in touch with her than me. Agneepath releases this week... Yes it's a role which fascinated and repelled me. When Karan Malhotra came and narrated me the script that I was blown away by it. It was phenomenal! Kancha Cheena is the most complex, crazy, dark, unpredictable and evil character I have ever played in my life. I was an anti-hero in Khalnayak but this guy is too evil! Kancha is a very dark character his lines are very funny! One of my favourite lines is when Hrithik's father comes to me and says, 'Hum usko milke maarenge.' To which I retort, 'Tu kya kisiko marega mama?' He's an old, half-dead guy how will he help me? I have some really good one-liners in the film. Did you have any objections to becoming bald for the role? Yes. When Karan (Malhotra) told me I had to go bald for the role, initially I objected. I told him I could do prosthetics. A lady from Los Angeles came and we had the look test with the prosthetics. But the real test came in Diu where it was so hot the prosthetics melted. It took me three hours to put it on and two to take off. When I put it on and went out there it just melted in the heat! There was a unit of 500 people and we had to decide what to do. I couldn't keep putting it back on and off. I just had to take a call so I told Karan that I would shave off my hair as there was no other way out. I think it was the best thing I did because it helped me in my performance. Imagine something stuck on your head for 10 hours. Everything gets restricted and I can't focus on my performance. As it gets hotter and hotter as you get more irritable. It was the best thing that happened and luckily my other producers understood. But when I went bald on the first day I felt funny... From being a great-looking guy you look ugly and menacing in Agneepath. Did you ever feel insecure about the way you looked as compared to Hrithik? If I said yes to the script that means the character attracted me. I never had any insecurities with anybody in the industry in the last 32 years, why should I have it now?

Sanjay Dutt has injured himself while doing an action scene. There's a large bruise on his arm that his wife Maanayata is concerned about. 

He also has high fever and is as 'grumpy as a baby' the wife says. A candid chat with the actor-producer on his next home production, wife Maanayata, dosti with Ajay Devgn and his next film Agneepath which releases this week: 

Maanayata is turning producer soon? Yes, Maana will be producing the super-hit Telugu action film Badri. Maana has designed the new office in Bandra and now our house too. She does everything in a cost-effective way. She is also into designing jewellery. I have told her that she should bring out her own jewellery line. I offered the remake of Badri to Ajay (Devgn) as Rascals was a disaster and I owe him one. 

Is Ajay upset about Rascals? He hasn't told me but I know he was disappointed. He asked me to just forget it. 

You are an actor but have banned daughter Trishala from acting? Why? There's nothing wrong for a girl to be in the film industry. But my father ( Sunil Dutt) had a few rules about the girls in his family whether it were my sisters Namrata or Priya or their kids and they are very pretty girls too! They knew it right from the beginning that they can't even go that way. I want to carry my dad's legacy forward. When people ask me why can't Trishala be in films I will say just one thing - Trishala is my daughter and nobody can tell me what to do! They have no right to talk about it. First take care of your kids and let me take care of mine! 

Is Trishala is upset with your decision? She may have been upset but I am sure some day she will understand what I have done after she starts doing well in another field. She's graduated in forensic science which I always felt was a very dignified job. She wants to earn lots of money and I keep telling her that Rome wasn't built in a day. I hope some sense comes to her soon as she's a very intelligent kid. Maana is more in touch with her than me. 

Agneepath releases this week... Yes it's a role which fascinated and repelled me. When Karan Malhotra came and narrated me the script that I was blown away by it. It was phenomenal! Kancha Cheena is the most complex, crazy, dark, unpredictable and evil character I have ever played in my life. I was an anti-hero in Khalnayak but this guy is too evil! Kancha is a very dark character his lines are very funny! One of my favourite lines is when Hrithik's father comes to me and says, 'Hum usko milke maarenge.' To which I retort, 'Tu kya kisiko marega mama?' He's an old, half-dead guy how will he help me? I have some really good one-liners in the film. 

Did you have any objections to becoming bald for the role? Yes. When Karan (Malhotra) told me I had to go bald for the role, initially I objected. I told him I could do prosthetics. A lady from Los Angeles came and we had the look test with the prosthetics. But the real test came in Diu where it was so hot the prosthetics melted. It took me three hours to put it on and two to take off. When I put it on and went out there it just melted in the heat! There was a unit of 500 people and we had to decide what to do. I couldn't keep putting it back on and off. I just had to take a call so I told Karan that I would shave off my hair as there was no other way out. I think it was the best thing I did because it helped me in my performance. Imagine something stuck on your head for 10 hours. Everything gets restricted and I can't focus on my performance. As it gets hotter and hotter as you get more irritable. It was the best thing that happened and luckily my other producers understood. But when I went bald on the first day I felt funny... 

From being a great-looking guy you look ugly and menacing in Agneepath. Did you ever feel insecure about the way you looked as compared to Hrithik? If I said yes to the script that means the character attracted me. I never had any insecurities with anybody in the industry in the last 32 years, why should I have it now?