Nargis

rgis had long-time relationship with actor Raj Kapoor, who was her co-star in several films  but Raj Kapoor was already married then and had children when they had their affair going on during the making of the films together. After he refused to divorce his wife, Nargis decided to end their year long term relationship and she married Sunil Dutt, on 11 March 1958. Their off screen romance started when Sunil Dutt had saved her life from a fire accident on the sets of the film, ' Mother India '   The couple had three children together Sanjay Dutt, Namrata, and Priya Dutt.  Sanjay Dutt went on to become a successful film actor. Namrata married actor Kumar Gaurav . He is the son of veteran actor Rajendra Kumar who had appeared in the block buster film, 'Mother India' with Nargis and Sunil Dutt .  Her daughter Priya became a politician and a Member of Parliament for Lok Sabha. Nargis had met Sunil Dutt first time on the sets of Balraj Sahni 's Do Bigha Zameen, He was  then a student aspiring to be an actor and she was already an established star by then. They had no plans then of getting married until several years later after their acted together in the film ' Mother India ' The two came from very different backgrounds. Sunil Dutt was the son of a Punjabi land-owning family who lost their land to Pakistan and had to rebuild their lives and homes in India.Nargis was the daughter of Jaddanbai, a Muslim Thumri Singer. from Allahabad, and Mohan Babu, a Hindu from Rawalpindi. Along with her husband, Nargis established the Ajanta Cultural Troupe which brought in several leading actors and singers of the time together to hold stage shows at Border Areas .  In early 1970s, she became the first patron of Spastics Society of India  , and her subsequent work with the organisation brought her recognition as a social worker, and later she was nominated for Rajya Sabha in 1980. Nargis after her death continued to be a part of his every waking hour.. Her son Sanjay Dutt has strong resemblance of his beautiful mother.  A  cancer foundation  has been established in her name by her husband Sunil Dutt and the family.  Some memories of their life together, Sunil Dutt says, can never be forgotten. One of them was his wife's unfulfilled ambition to be a doctor and the other dream that she saw was to see her son Sanjay Dutt earn fame, name in the film Industry. Her dream was to see his first film release and see him as an established actor.  The time when Nargis was in her last stages and dying, her son Sanjay Dutt's debut film  Rocky  was released .  Nargis wanted to be present for the premier but she didn't make it till the 7th May the date of the release and she passed away on May 3rd. Rocky became a hit and he didn't know whether to celebrate or to cry. He was young and he took to drugs soon after.