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Biopic spotlights troubled life of Bollywood’s ‘Deadly Dutt’

By: Sarwar Alam

A Indian biopic out this week charts the troubled life of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, including his battles with drug addiction and jail time for keeping illegal weapons. The Hindi-language actor, nicknamed “Deadly Dutt”, served over four years in prison for possessing guns supplied by gangsters behind a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993, India’s deadliest to date. Sanju, which hits screens on Friday, covers the period from just before Dutt’s Bollywood debut with Rocky — nothing to do with the 1976 Sylvester Stallone classic of the same name — in 1981 to his release from jail in 2016. Director Rajkumar…

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