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Thursday, May 26, 2005
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Politics Variety - People Sunil Dutt dead Our Bureau
Mumbai , May 25 VETERAN film actor and Union Sports Minister Mr Sunil Dutt died here on Wednesday after a brief illness. He was 75. Mr Dutt, who was active in public life for more than five decades, is survived by his son, actor Sanjay Dutt, and two daughters. Contesting and winning Parliamentary elections for the first time in 1984, Mr Dutt subsequently won four times from his North West Mumbai constituency. A personal choice of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, he retained his seat in the 1989 and 1991 elections and following a gap, again in the elections of 1999, 2000 and 2004. He did not contest elections in 1996 and 1998, as he was preoccupied with cases against his son, Sunjay Dutt, filed by the Mumbai Police. In the political field, he was best known for his work with slum dwellers and minorities. He entered films when director Ramesh Saigal signed him up for the hero's role in Railway Platform (1955). He went on to do various roles in films such as Mother India, Gumraah, Waqt, Humraaz, Khandaan, Milan and Reshma Aur Shera. `Birju', the character he portrayed in Mother India, is much remembered even to this day. In a statement on Wednesday, the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh, said that the country had lost a multi-faceted actor and a genuine Congress party worker.
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