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Sunil Dutt (born Balraj Dutt; 6 June 1929 – 25 May 2005) was an Indian actor, film producer, director and politician. Dutt was honoured with Padma Shri, in 1968, by the Government of India, for his contribution to Indian cinema. Dutt debuted in 1955 with the Hindi film Railway Platform.
Sunil Dutt was a versatile and popular actor in Hindi cinema, who also directed and produced films. He was married to the legendary actress Nargis, and founded the Nargis Dutt Foundation for cancer patients.
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- Actor, Producer, Director and Politician
- Indian National Congress (INC)
- Balraj Dutt
Actor, social activist and politician. Sunil Dutt wore many hats and excelled in a plethora of roles that came his way - both on and off screen. Born on June 6th, 1926, Sunil Dutt grew up as Balraj Dutt in a family that had survived the Partition of India.
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- Jhelum, Punjab, British India
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Sunil Dutt was an actor, social activist and politician who starred in films like Mother India, Waqt and Padosan. He was married to Nargis, had three children, including actor Sanjay Dutt, and died in 2005.
- June 6, 1926
- May 25, 2005
Jun 2, 2024 · Sunil Dutt (born June 6, 1929, Khurd village, Jhelum district, British India [now in Pakistan]—died May 25, 2005, Mumbai) was an Indian actor, producer, director, social activist, and politician who was especially known for his several acting roles as a dacoit (member of an armed gang of bandits).
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May 25, 2022 · A closer peek into Sunil Dutt's extraordinary life and times reveals an unheralded role — that of a beloved godfather to Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna and his own son Sanjay Dutt.
Jun 6, 2018 · Sunil Dutt’s 90th birth anniversary: Some interesting facts about the actor-turned-politician. Life had taken him through the trauma of partition, his wife's untimely death due to cancer and his son's arrest after the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993. But all these tragedies failed to deter the man from following his first love - Cinema.
