India's sports minister and former Bollywood icon Sunil Dutt died today after a heart attack, an aide said.
"He suffered a massive heart attack and died," the aide said in Bombay.
Mr Dutt (75), 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 Mr Dutt's best-known films was "Mother India", which was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category in 1957 and catapulted him to stardom.
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His son Sanjay is a leading actor in Bollywood and the father-son duo acted together in a hit comedy "Munnabhai MBBS" in 2003.