The Mumbai Mirror lead story today profiles the troubled actor who apparently took to drinking a bottle of vodka every day. If that's true, he's probably better off in jail.

Here's what the story says: The star who has been drug-free for decades and overcome his heavy alcoholism has taken to finishing a bottle of vodka a day, revealed a source close to him.

"Baba is unable to sleep without it. He wouldn't listen to anyone, including Manyata advising him against it. And when he is not drinking, he is smoking," said the friend who did not wish to be quoted on record.

"For weeks now he has been drinking to crash out." He has also been getting crying jags and has been particularly inconsolable around his twins, aged two and a half.

To whosoever has been to visit the star, he has one thing to say: "How will I survive without fans, pillows and mosquito repellents? I had none of these when I was last jailed in 1993 but don't forget I was 33 then. I am a 53-year-old man now."

Recalling the rough quality of the standard issue blanket, he told friends he was unsure he'd survive the next three and a half years of jail life.

Dutt who only recently returned to India after expensive hair and cosmetic surgery is most dreading the filthy Indian-style toilets in the jail, which he last shared with eight other prisoners.