Topic: Sanjay Dutt

Bal Thackeray was India’s only purely parochial leader. He was also his own brand manager and a man deeply in love with himself.

Chief minister Pawan Chamling is trying to bring Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to Sikkim and inspire youth to overcome addiction.

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.   Cartoonist Irfan takes a dig at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath's remarks that Rahul Gandhi would think 10 times before hugging him. The comment comes in the wake of the Congress president having embraced Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha Friday. Cartoonist Manjul in Mid-Day takes a dig at Maharashtra government's efforts at improving Mumbai's infrastructure. On Tuesday, poor planning left lakhs of commuters stuck in hours-long traffic jams, as the Delisle bridge in Lower Parel was shut for reconstruction. On 20 July, home minister Rajnath Singh stated in the Lok Sabha that the biggest case of mob lynching occurred during the 1984 Sikh genocide. Cartoonist Gokul, in The Asian Age, refers to the recurring mob violence in the country. Cartoonist Sajith Kumar...

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Just how diabolical, read here. 71 AKs, 500 grenades, 3.5 tonne RDX were hidden in “safe” places for when ‘riots started’ after serial blasts. Just that Bombay saved India, and failed ISI. You remember the mayhem just 10 AK rifles caused in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. But do you also remember how many AK rifles were recovered in Mumbai following the serial blasts of 1993? We aren’t even counting the one found with Sanjay Dutt and destroyed by his “friend” Kersi Adjania in his foundry. Adjania, by the way, spent two years in jail in his mid-eighties for destruction of evidence. Okay, you Googled. Yes, it was 71 AK rifles. What havoc would 71 have wreaked in 1993? Mind you, that in 1993, Mumbai (then Bombay) Police didn’t have a single AK, or any other assault rifle. Second, do you recall how much RDX was recovered in Mumbai following those blasts?...

An unbiased biopic is an oxymoron, and Sanju is no exception.

In Sanju, Rajkumar Hirani turns a privileged movie star into a victim of media bias. The movie fails to probe Dutt’s choices.

This excerpt from 'Sanjay Dutt: The crazy untold story of Bollywood's bad boy' speaks about what happened after the actor popped a pill of LSD. 

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In his gangster roles in movies, Sanjay Dutt made us believe he would not have been a criminal had circumstances been different.