Forever bad

It seems that some celebs like Paris Hilton, Salman and sanjay Dutt can’t leave their pasts far enough behind them. TOI does a round-up of troubled celebs.

doweshowbellyad=0; Salman (TOI Photo)More picsPoor Paris Hilton. She just can’t seem to escape her 1 Night in Paris.
Videotape footage taken earlier this week shows the 26-year-old heiress, dressed in a black hooded top, ripping apart a cardboard cut-out of herself in a Toronto pornography store advertising the sex tape that skyrocketed her to international fame in 2003.
She was heard threatening to the sue the store manager, saying it was “mean and not right”. And all this as she tries to clean up her party girl image after her 22-day stint in jail earlier this year with a planned trip to Rwanda, which has been postponed.
But as much as Paris tries, will she ever be able to shake off her past? And will ever be able to get rid of her airhead image?

Not likely, seeing that people feel the celebutard (a word coined for her by the New York Post, meaning celeb+retard) is being inflicted on Rwanda rather than helping the impoverished country.
But it seems that people in India are more ready to forgive their erring celebs. Ever since he was arrested in 1993 for illegal possession of arms under TADA, Sanjay Dutt’s spells in jail — from 1993 to 1995, for three weeks this August, and his current stint — have chequered his film career.

In 2001, he was also questioned by the Enforcement Directorate about alleged hawala deals in connection with the probe into the underworld-Bollywood nexus.
But no charges were filed against him. That same year, an audiotape surfaced that allegedly contained a phone conversation between Dutt and gangster Chota Shakeel. But he’s always been a fave in the film industry, with people raving about his “heart of gold” and “good intentions”.
He’s even tried to change his image: Pictures of him entering jail in August show a red-eyed, unshaven Dutt, while those of him after his release show the world a more spruced up Dutt in netaji gear.
The success of both Munna Bhai movies endeared him to the public and the fact that he’s now at Yerawada prison, where Mahatma Gandhi also served time, adds more pathos to his situation.
Then there’s Salman Khan, Bollywood’s bad boy, who’s he’s also had his share of court visits. In 2002, he was arrested in a hit-and-run incident in which he killed one person and injured three others.
Though the charges were dropped, the case is still pending. But the case that continues to dog Khan is his involvement in the shooting of a chinkara. He was sentenced to one year in prison in February 2006 and two months later, given a five-year term and remanded to Jodhpur jail in April. But he was released on bail three days later.
In August this year, he was sent back to jail, but was released after six days. But people in the industry have rallied around him, saying he is “misunderstood” and that he does a lot of charity work.
And his fans say the fact that he donates generously to orphanages and spends time with terminally ill children without tom-tomming it, endears him even more to his fans.

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