Ex-Bollywood actor Sunil Dutt dies

Ex-Bollywood actor Sunil Dutt dies

INDIA: India's sports minister and former Bollywood icon Sunil Dutt died on Wednesday after a heart attack, an aide said.

"He suffered a massive heart attack and died," the aide told Reuters in Bombay.

Dutt, a popular film star since the late 1950s, was a member of India's lower house of parliament from Bombay and had been a minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet for the past year.

One of Dutt's greatest films was Mother India, which was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category in 1957 and catapulted him to stardom.

Dutt, 75, undertook a peace march from Bombay to the northern city of Amritsar in Punjab in the 1980s when the state was reeling from a Sikh rebellion.

Dutt's son, Sanjay, is a leading actor in Bollywood and the father-son duo acted together in a hit comedy called Munnabhai MBBS in 2003. -- Reuters