Remembering Sunil Dutt

( 6th June 1929- 25th May 2005 )

'जलते है जिसके लिये तेरी आंखोके दिये  ...'

Bollywood actors entering into politics is not so uncommon but it is very rare that a Bollywood star becomes a successful Politician and remains in active politics for about 25 years. But this happened in case of Sunil Dutt. He got elected to Parliament from Mumbai North West constituency 5 times and when he passed away in 2005 he was the Minister of sports and Youth in the Manmohan Singh Govt!

But he was also a star by himself though he could not garner the stardom as similar to that of the great trio ( Raj, Dilip, Dev ) He made a humble start with the film 'Railway Platform' in 1955. But the film 'Mother India ' in 1957, established him as a star. His successful films include Sadhana, Sujata, Mujhe Jeene do, Khandan, Padosan, Milan, Gumrah, Waqt, Pran Jaye par Vacchan na Jaye among others. He also created a record of directing and starring in the unique film ' Yaadein' in which he was the only actor. He then turned to Production but his two films ' Man ka Meet' and ' Reshma aur Shera' failed miserably at Box office.

Apart from Politician, Sunil Dutt was a tireless social worker. He was the founder of Nargis Dutt Foundation which helps the cancer patients and was also the sponserer of India Project.

His last appearance in film was in Munnabhai MBBS in 2003 in which he first and last time shared the screen with his son Sanjay Dutt !