He declined the offer, and the role was eventually done by Sanjay Dutt.
This is the first time the two accused are appearing together before authorities making a public appearance.
BBC Channel 4's documentary called Sanjay Dutt: To Hell And Back chronicles Dutt's struggle.
Bollywood stars celebrate Mahashivratri by sharing pictures on social media.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has said his father Sunil Dutt, who was a Congress leader, might have been upset over his joining Samajwadi Party.
BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra in a grand ceremony at Azad Maidan in Mumbai.
'The way the anticipation is built up for Gabbar Singh's introduction scene with sound, image and details of his personality, like the combat boots he wears.' 'The camera comes so close -- not a tele lens shot, but a wide-angle close-up -- that you can almost smell Gabbar's breath.'
Aftab Shivdasani joins Akshay Kumar in Ahmed Khan's Welcome to the Jungle.
The Sanjay Dutt case is different from the Navjyot Singh Sidhu case and both should not be clubbed together, feels the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Film folk celebrate Raksha Bandhan with cute pictures and messages.
Aziz alleged that judge P D Kode discriminated by not convicting Sanjay Dutt under the TADA despite recovery of arms and ammunition from the actor's residence.
Bollywood errupted with joy over the news of Sanjay Dutt's release on bail by the Supreme Court.
'One thing I really lack as an actor is angst. I'm not an angry person. I'm a very fun-loving, happy, detached guy.'
Hitting out at Priya Dutt for her reported remarks that her father Sunil Dutt would not have liked his son Sanjay Dutt contesting the Lok Sabha polls on a Samajwadi Party ticket, party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday said Dutt junior had campaigned for the party even when the late actor was alive.Singh claimed that when the Congress had asked Sunil Dutt to campaign against Jaya Prada, he had refused. "He had said he would not campaign against people in the industry."
Sanjay Dutt is a strong man and he has accepted the punishment awarded by the Supreme Court, the actor's lawyer Satishmane Shinde said on Thursday. Maneshinde, who represented Dutt at the trial in the 1993 blasts case in the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court, said he had spoken to the actor, who will have to undergo three-and-a-half more years in jail.
'Shooting with Pankaj was a delightful experience because he was a charming, easy and effortless singer.'
"I have been in the honourable court for 15 years and there are no favourites and favouritism of any sort to anybody. It's always been fair," he said in an interview to NDTV.
Souces said family members, including Sanjay's sister and Congress MP Priya Dutt, were waiting for release orders from the Supreme Court.
Instead on reforming them, our jails are turning inmates into hardened criminals, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Nazia Hussain is fond of fashion and will serenade you with her Insta-worthy sartorial choices.
Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, who was shot dead in Mumbai, was a popular figure in Bollywood circles and had earned praise for supplying life-saving medicines to patients during the Covid pandemic.
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Sanjay Dutt will have to wait for a few more days to know what the verdict on him will be.
Rajkumar Hirani's blockbuster Sanju completes three years on June 29.
A look at the visarjan pictures.
Raveena Tandon and daughter Rasha Thadani offered prayers at the Somnath Mahadev temple in Gujarat.
And #DuttsTheWay the film is wrapped up!
Check out the star arrivals at this special screening of Drishyam.
'When my mom saw my performance in Dhoka, she loved it.' 'She said, "I don't know why I stopped you for so many years. Ab jaa beta, jee le apni zindagi".'
If only the movie could hold its own the way Raveena Tandon does in a cream and gold Manish Malhotra lehenga, Ghudchadhi would be half the entertainer it set out to be, feels Sukanya Verma.
Bollywood is celebrating Raksha Bandhan with pictures of their siblings and beautiful accompanying messages.
With another parole, Sanjay Dutt has now been out of jail for 162 days from his 5 year sentence.
India's flexible (flex) office segment, having breached pre-pandemic levels, is thriving as corporates, startups, multinational corporations, and global capability centres (GCCs) expand in India, seeking low-capital yet Grade A plug-and-play facilities. In the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, the flex office segment continued to grow, with flex space leasing rising by 22 per cent to 2.2 million square feet (msf), according to Colliers.
The Sanjay Dutt starrer is set to release on July 5.
Sanjay Gadhvi once revealed to Subhash K Jha that he never wanted to make Dhoom.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, chief ministers of Nationalist Democratic Alliance-ruled states and prominent personalities from industry and Bollywood on Thursday attended the grand swearing-in of Devendra Fadnavis as Maharashtra Chief Minister in Mumbai.
The stars join Salman Khan on his cool game show.
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