January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year (359 in leap years).

Events[link]

• 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1598 – Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
• 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
• 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
• 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
• 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
• 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
• 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
• 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
• 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
• 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
• 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
• 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
• 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
• 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
• 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
• 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
• 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• 1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
• 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
• 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
• 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
• 1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
• 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
• 2010 – Muslim gunmen open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.

Births[link]

• 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
• 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
• 1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
• 1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
• 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
• 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
• 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company (d. 1785)
• 1718 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
• 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823)
• 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
• 1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
• 1796 – Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
• 1800 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
• 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
• 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
• 1832 – James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
• 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
• 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
• 1845 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
• 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
• 1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
• 1870 – Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
• 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
• 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
• 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
• 1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
• 1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
• 1876 – William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
• 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky (d. 1982)
• 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960)
• 1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of Qantas (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
• 1896 – Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
• 1899 – Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
• 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
• 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003)
• 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
• 1910 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
• 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Chester Kallman, American writer (d. 1975)
• 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
• 1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
• 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
• 1925 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician
• 1928 – William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
• 1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
• 1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
• 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American film producer (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Charles Jenkins, American sprinter
• 1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 – Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
• 1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
• 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
• 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
• 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
• 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
• 1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
• 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
• 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
• 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
• 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
• 1943 – Richard Armstrong, British conductor
• 1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
• 1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
• 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
• 1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1945 – Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician
• 1945 – Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
• 1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author
• 1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher
• 1947 – Shobha De, Indian writer
• 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer (Loggins and Messina)
• 1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
• 1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
• 1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
• 1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
• 1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
• 1951 – Helen Worth, British actress
• 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
• 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist
• 1956 – David Caruso, American actor
• 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
• 1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist
• 1957 – Katie Couric, American television host
• 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
• 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
• 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
• 1958 – Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure
• 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
• 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Go's)
• 1960 – David Marciano, American actor
• 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician, U.S. Representative from California
• 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
• 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
• 1961 – John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
• 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
• 1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress
• 1963 – Clint Mansell, English musician and composer (Pop Will Eat Itself)
• 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky
• 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor
• 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
• 1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
• 1967 – Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader
• 1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
• 1967 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
• 1969 – David Yost, American actor
• 1970 – Todd Day, American basketball player
• 1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor
• 1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
• 1971 – C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
• 1971 – Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
• 1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
• 1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
• 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
• 1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian athlete
• 1974 – John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
• 1975 – Tift Merritt, American singer songwriter (The Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt)
• 1975 – Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian dissident blogger
• 1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 – Michelle Behennah, British model
• 1977 – Marco Storari, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
• 1977 – John Gidding, American architect and TV host
• 1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
• 1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
• 1978 – Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent
• 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
• 1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
• 1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
• 1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand All Black rugby player
• 1980 – Zöe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter
• 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
• 1982 – Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
• 1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
• 1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
• 1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor
• 1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
• 1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
• 1984 – Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
• 1985 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer
• 1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
• 1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer
• 1988 – Haley Bennett, American singer and actress
• 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
• 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
• 1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
• 1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
• 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
• 1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
• 1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
• 1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor
• 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

Deaths[link]

• 1285 – King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
• 1325 – King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
• 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
• 1451 – Count Amadeus VIII of Svoy (b. 1383)
• 1536 – Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
• 1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
• 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. c.1547)
• 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c.1560)
• 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
• 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
• 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. c.1618)
• 1700 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
• 1715 – François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
• 1758 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
• 1767 – Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
• 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
• 1783 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
• 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
• 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768)
• 1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
• 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
• 1876 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
• 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
• 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
• 1893 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1904 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1913 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
• 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
• 1920 – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• 1927 – Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician (b. 1851)
• 1932 – André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
• 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
• 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
• 1944 – Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
• 1946 – Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
• 1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
• 1960 – Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
• 1963 – Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 – Cyril Davies, English musician (b. 1932)
• 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
• 1967 – David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Prof. James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
• 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1981 – Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
• 1986 – P. D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
• 1988 – Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
• 1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
• 1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 – Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 – James Carr, American Rhythm & Blues and soul musician (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances[link]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Canute Lavard
  • Charles of Sezze
  • Lucian of Antioch
  • Raymond of Peñafort
  • January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar)
• Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
• Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japan)
• Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar)
• Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)
• Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)

External links[link]

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Sanjay Dutt
Born	Sanjay Balraj Dutt (1959-07-29) 29 July 1959 (age 52) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Film actor, film producer, comedian, politician, television presenter
Years active	1972, 1981–present
Spouse	Richa Sharma (1987–1996) (deceased) Rhea Pillai (1995–2005) (divorced)[1] Manyata Dutt (2008–present)[2]
Children	Trishala, Shahraan, Iqra
Parents	Sunil Dutt Nargis Dutt

Sanjay Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is a prominent Indian Hindi film star, producer and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil Dutt and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981. He has since featured in films that are amongst some of the most popular Hindi language films of the past three decades.

Personal life[link]

Dutt was born on 29 July 1959 to Bollywood megastars Sunil Dutt and Nargis and was educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar.^[3] Dutt married the actress Richa Sharma in 1987.^[4] Sharma died of brain tumour. The couple have a daughter, Trishala, born in 1987, who lives in the United States with her grandparents, following a custody battle with Dutt after the death of his wife.^[5] Dutt's second marriage was to model Rhea Pillai in 1998.^[6] They divorced in 2005. Dutt married Manyata (also known as Dilnawaz Sheikh)^[7] in 2008 at a private ceremony in Goa, after two years of dating.^[8] On 21 October 2010, he became a father to twins, a boy named Shahraan and a girl named Iqra.^[9] He is well known for several altercations with the law, along with many other controversies throughout his life, as well as drug addiction in his early years.^{[citation needed]} He spent 5 months in prison in late 1982 after being caught in possession of illegal substances, upon his release he spent 2 years in the United States, the majority of which was spent in a Texan rehab clinic before returning to India and resuming his career.

Film career[link]

As a child actor, Dutt appeared in the 1972 film Reshma Aur Shera, which starred his father; he appears briefly as a qawali singer. Dutt made his Bollywood movie debut with Rocky in 1981. His mother passed away three days before the film's premiere. He went on to star in Vidhaata, the highest grossing Hindi film of 1982. In 1985 he shot for his first film in three years with Jaan ki baazi over the rest of the 1980s, Dutt appeared in successful films such as Main Awara Hoon (1983), Jeeva (1986), Mera Haque (1986), Immandaar, Inaam Dus Hazaar (1987), Jeete Hain Shaan Se (1987), Ilaaka (1989), Hum Bhi Insaan Hain (1989), Mardon Wali Baat (1988), Kanoon Apna Apna (1989), and Taaqatwar (1989).

The 1986 film Naam was Dutt's first major critical success, earning praise for his sensitive portrayal of lead character Vicky Kapoor. He also received critical acclaim for his performances in Mahesh Bhatt's Kabzaa and J. P. Dutta's 1989 Hathyar.^{[citation needed]} His successes continued in the early 1990s, with films that include Tejaa, Thanedaar, Khoon Ka Karz, Gumrah, Sahibaan and Aatish. He went on to star in some of the most era-defining Indian films of the 1990s such as Sadak, Saajan (for which he was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award) and Khal Nayak, for which he earned his second Filmfare Best Actor Award nomination. Three weeks before its release, however, in April 1993, he was arrested, charged with involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombings.

Dutt was imprisoned for most of the next four years, while films he had worked in continued to appear from time to time. Finally released on bail in late 1997, he returned to the screen in director Ram Gopal Verma's now cult film Daud, but despite the movie taking in a phenomenal opening the film crashed and was labelled a flop by critics. He then played a supporting role in the 1998 hit Dushman.

1999 was seen as Sanjay's comback year as he started the year off by starring in the Mahesh Bhatt directed hit Kartoos along with Khoobsurat, Daag: The Fire, Haseena Maan Jayegi and, most importantly, the Award winning Vaastav: The Reality, for which he won his first Filmfare Best Actor Award. His supporting role in 2000's Mission Kashmir won him critical acclaim and a number of awards and nominations, as did his subsequent performance in Kurukshetra. As the decade went on, he continued to play important roles in popular and critical successes such as Jodi No.1 (2001), Pitaah, Kaante (2002) and the National Award-winning blockbuster Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., which also garnered him several awards. Later successes came with Musafir (2004), Plan (2004), Parineeta (2005) and Dus.

The blockbuster sequel Lage Raho Munna Bhai released in late 2006, coinciding with the start of the Mumbai bombing's trial where the nation became transfixed with Dutt's court ongoings which saw him found not guilty of terrorism related acts but jailed on two occasions between 2006-2007 for short periods, as he was found guilty under the possesion of arms act despite this he continued appearing in successes like, Dhamaal (2007), Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), and All The Best: Fun Begins (2009), Double Dhamaal (2011) and more recently Agneepath which earned him major critical acclaim once again.

In 2006 news channel NDTV named him Indian of the Year.In 2007 he received an award from the prime minister Manmohan Singh for his work in the Munna bhai series.^{[citation needed]}. In January 2008,Indian film institute Filmfare listed 14 movies featuring Dutt in its top 100 grossing movies of all time list.

Illegal possession of arms[link]

Due to terrorist interactions, and supposed weapons possession, on 19 April 1993, Sanjay was arrested under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA).^[10] He spent 16 months in jail until he was granted bail in October 1995 by the Supreme Court of India. He was later re-arrested in December 1995 and re-released in April 1997 once again on police bail terms. In 2006 the case opened for sentencing for all accused (see below). The period between 2006-2007 saw Dutt spend 7 months in Arthur Road Prison and Pune prison on three occasions for arms offences, although in 2006 Dutt was finally acquitted of any TADA-related offenses but was charged under the illegal possession of arms act.

In November 1993, a 90,000-page long primary chargesheet was filed against the 189 accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case including Sanjay.^[11]

In March 2006, when framing muthar charges against extradited Abu Salem and co-accused Riyaz Siddiqui in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, the prosecution said that Salem delivered 9 AK-56 rifles and some hand grenades to Dutt at his Bandra house in the second week of January 1993.^[12]

On 13 February 2007, the special branch of Mumbai police arrested Abdul Qayyum Abdul Karim Shaikh, a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim and wanted by Mumbai Police Special Task Force for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts from Mumbai.^[13] Qayuum had been named by Sanjay Dutt in his confessional statement. Sanjay had said that he met Qayuum in Dubai in September 1992 and bought a pistol from him. According to CBI, the pistol was sold to Sanjay at the instance of Dawood's brother Anees Ibrahim.^[14]

On 31 July 2007, Dutt was sentenced to six years rigorous imprisonment for illegally possessing weapons.^[15] At the same time, Dutt was also "cleared of terrorism conspiracy charges in the blasts" related to the 1993 bombings.^[15] According to The Guardian, "The actor claimed he feared for his life after the notorious "Black Friday" bombings, which were allegedly staged by Mumbai's Muslim-dominated mafia in retaliation for deadly Hindu-Muslim clashes a few months earlier. But the judge, Pramod Kode, rejected this defence and also refused bail."^[15] Dutt was immediately taken into custody and sent to Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail. As the sentence was pronounced, Dutt was "visibly shocked and was seen shivering and holding back tears".^[10]

On 2 August 2007, Sanjay Dutt was moved from Arthur Road jail in Mumbai to the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune.^[16] On 7 August 2007, Dutt appealed the sentence.^[17] On 20 August 2007, the Supreme Court of India granted Dutt interim bail. He was released after Yerwada Central Jail authorities received a copy of the court's bail order. The bail was valid until the time the special TADA court, which sentenced Dutt on 31 July, provides a copy of its judgment to him.^[18] Dutt was released from jail on 23 August.^[19] On 22 October 2007 Dutt was back in jail but again applied for bail. On 27 November 2007, Dutt was granted bail by the Supreme Court.^[20] He currently has an appeal for an acquittal pending.^[21] In January 2009, Dutt announced that he would contest the 2009 Lok Sabha elections on the Samajwadi Party ticket.^[22] However, he withdrew his candidacy in March 2009 after the Supreme Court refused to suspend his conviction, the party instead named him the General Secretary of the party. He left the post in late 2010. ^[23]

International humanitarian initiatives[link]

On 16 December 2008, he was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for IIMSAM — the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition. He will be promoting the use of Spirulina to help the organization's advocacy and endeavor against malnutrition and hunger. His role will also support IIMSAM's efforts to secure the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by mainstreaming the use of Spirulina to eradicate malnutrition, achieve food security and bridge the health divide with a special priority for the developing and the least developed countries.^[24]

Bigg Boss[link]

The veteran actor hosted the fifth season of reality TV show, Bigg Boss on Colors.^[25]

Super Fight League[link]

Dutt and celebrity entrepreneur IPL cricket team owner Raj Kundra together launched India's first professionally organized mixed martial arts league — the Super Fight League — on 16 January 2012.^[26]

Awards and honors[link]

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Producer[link]

• Zinda (2006)
• Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)
• Dus Kahaniyaan (2007)
• Rascals (2011)
• Satte Pe Satta Remake Double role (2012)

Television[link]

• Bigg Boss (season 5)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sanjay Dutt

• Sanjay Dutt at the Internet Movie Database
• Sanjay Dutt to host Bigg Boss 5!

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