“A very special human being…He had friends and admirers not just in India but also across the world who will now miss him.”

— Sunil Dutt

By Indira Gandhi in Bollywood legend Sunil Dutt dies, 25 May, 2005, 6 December 2013, BBC Nnews http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4577963.stm,

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