A Fighter No More
When Sunil Dutt's Cessna aircraft crash-landed four years ago, he still survived. He did that probably because he was a fighter & survivor. Or perhaps, the goodwill he had generated in every walk of life helped him through.
He survived partition, struggle for his career, his wife's & daughter-in-law's cancer, his son's various notorious ways - brush with drugs, imprisonment, underworld connection. Still, I haven't seen another actor with a face so soulful and full of life.
I haven't seen a more tearful funeral of a celebrity since Rajiv Gandhi's fourteen years ago. Have seen so many actors genuinely crying for the first time, as well. Almost every one in the industry is indebted to him in some form or the other, with Amitabh being the biggest of all. His first screen test was taken Nargis and Sunil Dutt.
Why only actors, so many people from street, brothels, chaals were crying too. The story is same, be it Mumbai - his constituency, Haryana - in his village, Gujrat -where Mother India was shot, almost every where in India.
His moral values get reflected in the movies he did, both as an actor and director. Most of them had definite message. I particularly loved his role in Mother India, Mujhe Jeeney Do, Mera Saya, Milan & Padosan. Yaadein & Dard Ka Rishta were brave efforts too.
Apart from being a good person, he was a brave man too. He saved his would be wife from ravaging fires. But that's a much later incident. Here is one incident which not many people know about which happened much earlier.
At that time he had just resettled in India, and was visiting Delhi for sight seeing. While he was near India Gate, he saw a person drowning in a pond. Despite of the fact that he didn't know swimming, he jumped into the water to save that person. This act of selflessness & extraordinary courage brought his name and photograph on the front page Hindustan Times next day.
Well, such stories are profound in the lives of real life heroes, and hero Sunil Dutt was. One can emulate him as an artist, as a politician, as a human being. You will be emulated, Mr. Dutt.
He survived partition, struggle for his career, his wife's & daughter-in-law's cancer, his son's various notorious ways - brush with drugs, imprisonment, underworld connection. Still, I haven't seen another actor with a face so soulful and full of life.
I haven't seen a more tearful funeral of a celebrity since Rajiv Gandhi's fourteen years ago. Have seen so many actors genuinely crying for the first time, as well. Almost every one in the industry is indebted to him in some form or the other, with Amitabh being the biggest of all. His first screen test was taken Nargis and Sunil Dutt.
Why only actors, so many people from street, brothels, chaals were crying too. The story is same, be it Mumbai - his constituency, Haryana - in his village, Gujrat -where Mother India was shot, almost every where in India.
His moral values get reflected in the movies he did, both as an actor and director. Most of them had definite message. I particularly loved his role in Mother India, Mujhe Jeeney Do, Mera Saya, Milan & Padosan. Yaadein & Dard Ka Rishta were brave efforts too.
Apart from being a good person, he was a brave man too. He saved his would be wife from ravaging fires. But that's a much later incident. Here is one incident which not many people know about which happened much earlier.
At that time he had just resettled in India, and was visiting Delhi for sight seeing. While he was near India Gate, he saw a person drowning in a pond. Despite of the fact that he didn't know swimming, he jumped into the water to save that person. This act of selflessness & extraordinary courage brought his name and photograph on the front page Hindustan Times next day.
Well, such stories are profound in the lives of real life heroes, and hero Sunil Dutt was. One can emulate him as an artist, as a politician, as a human being. You will be emulated, Mr. Dutt.
posted by Unknown at 9:34 AM
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