Ahead of release, Sanjay Dutt gets surprise visit by Baba Ramdev in Pune jail

Just ahead of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt release from jail, the actor had an unusual visitor in Yerawada Central Jailon Thursday - yoga guru Baba Ramdev, official sources said. Sanjay Dutt is expected to be released from jail on February 25, 2016 after completing the remainder of his 5-year term. (Reuters)

Sporting his trademark saffron mendicant's attire, Ramdev had come to the jail for giving training in yoga to the inmates, mostly in white prison uniforms, where Sanjay Dutt was also present. (Reuters)

After the yoga session on the sprawling campus, the yoga guru and Sanjay Dutt had a brief tete-a-tete in which the actor requested him to pray for his early release. (Reuters)

In fact, the Sanjay Dutt and Baba Ramdev are not strangers to each other and had met at a private Ganeshotsav function in Mumbai in September last year when the actor was out on a month's parole. (Reuters)

There has been talk in Bollywood of plans to make a biopic on Ramdev and his crusade against graft and corrupt politicians for which he has campaigned several times in the past. (Reuters)