Sunil Dutt passes away 25th May 2005
13.35 IST
By Agencies
Veteran actor and Union Sports Minister Sunil Dutt died in Mumbai today after a brief illness.
The 75-year-old Dutt, who had been in public eye for the last five decades, including forty years as a star actor, is survived by his actor son Sanjay Dutt and two daughters.
A popular star in the 1960s, Dutt, alongwith his late wife Nargis , made a name for themselves in the social and cultural circles by contributing their mite for many causes.
A five-time MP, Dutt contested his first Lok Sabha elections after joining the Congress in 1984.
He was the personal choice of late Rajiv Gandhi. Winning the Mumbai North West seat in his maiden attempt, he retained the seat in the 1989 and 1991 elections.
He did not contest the 1996 and 1998 elections as he was preoccupied with a case against his son Sanjay by the Mumbai police. He won the 1999, 2000 and 2004 elections.
Dutt acted in scores of films, including the classic ‘Mother India’, which propelled him to stardom, and ‘Gumraah’, ‘Waqt’, ‘Humraaz’, ‘Khandaan’, ‘Milan’, and ‘Reshma Aur Shera’.
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Sunil Dutt passes away
