Cancer patient Sanjay Dutt to work on ‘K.G.F: Chapter 2’ movie

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has confirmed he has cancer following weeks of media speculation, according to an AFP report.

“This is a recent scar of my life, but I’ll beat it. I’ll be out of this cancer soon,” 61-year-old Dutt said, pointing to a scar running from his left eyebrow across the side of his head in an Instagram video posted by Bollywood hairstylist Aalim Hakim.

Dutt also confirmed he would start shooting his next movie “K.G.F: Chapter 2” in November.

In August, Dutt had issued a statement on social media saying he was “taking a short break for some medical treatment.”

The Hindi-language actor served time in prison for possessing guns supplied by gangsters responsible for bombings in Mumbai in 1993 and has also battled drug addiction, AFP added.

Dutt shot to fame in the mid-1980s in a string of action movies in which he performed his own stunts.

His string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s include “Jeete Hain Shaan Se” (“We Live with Style”), “Saajan” (“Beloved”) and “Khal Nayak” (“Villain”).

Dutt has also been married three times. His first wife Richa was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1987 and died in 1996.

In 2018, a film about his life, “Sanju,” was released covering the period from just before Dutt’s Bollywood debut with romantic drama “Rocky” in 1981 to his release from jail in 2016.