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Indian news channels often spice up bulletins with a chutney of Bollywood gossip. But for the last few days, television news itself has begun to resemble Bollywood, thanks to the song and dance over the prison sentences awarded to two leading film stars, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan. Serious news anchors have weighed in on what a calamity the prison terms will be for the actors, their families, the film industry and the nation at large, while stories with perhaps more import - the possibility the government could collapse because of the controversial U.S.-India nuclear deal, sa, or terrorist bombings...
CONVICTED. Sanjay Dutt, 47, Indian actor and star of more than 100 Bollywood films; of illegal-weapons possession, stemming from an investigation into the 1993 Bombay bombings that killed 257, the deadliest terror attack in the nation's history; in Bombay. While Dutt had been accused of obtaining an AK-56 rifle and a 9-mm pistol from an alleged conspirator in the bombing, the judge found there was insufficient evidence linking the guns to a cache of smuggled arms used in the Bombay attack. Dutt could still face up to 10 years in jail on the possession charge...
...pages of evidence and testimony from 600 witnesses. In the meantime, 12 defendants have died, while the alleged masterminds?Bombay mobsters Dawood Ibrahim and Ibrahim (Tiger) Memon?have eluded police and are thought to be hiding overseas. Verdicts on the remaining suspects, including Bollywood film star Sanjay Dutt, accused of receiving arms from a gangster involved in the bombings, are expected in the next few weeks. But Sahni says the delay, and the ability of the main alleged plotters to escape justice, mean the verdict "will have very little deterrent value" to avert future attacks. With sectarian violence still rumbling...
...DIED. SUNIL DUTT, 75, Bollywood actor turned politician who rose from poverty to star in 100 movies and later spent two decades in India's Parliament; in Bombay. One of India's best-loved actors, Dutt's breakthrough role came in 1957 as an idealistic young man who stands up to loan sharks in the Academy Award-nominated classic Mother India. Elected to Parliament five times starting in 1984 as a member of the Congress Party, he became India's Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs in 2004. On his death, chairperson of India's ruling coalition Sonia Gandhi praised...
...Shah and Dutt are not alone; nearly every Indian moviemaker or shaker has schmoozed with the Mob at some point. "They get the calls and over a period of time they are seduced," says Shridhar Vagal, who heads the Bombay police's crime department. "Before they know it, they have accepted some help and then they go on making incremental compromises." According to Mahesh Bhatt, writer-producer of this year's hit thriller Raaz: "Some people may have embarrassing connections with the underworld, but most film people are just victims." Apparently, victims of a sustained assault by the underworld. Victims...