Early Life
Sunil Dutt was born in a Punjabi family on 6 June 1929 in the city Jhelum situated on the right bank of the Jhelum River, British India now in Pakistan. Sunil's father passed away when he was 5. When Sunil was 18, the Partition of India began inciting Muslim-Hindu violence across the country. A Muslim named Yakub, who had been friends with Sunil's father, saved their entire family.
The family resettled in a small village on the bank of river Yamuna called Mandoli in Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana. Later he moved to lucknow and spent a long time in Aminabad Galli during graduation and to fulfill his dreams he moved to Mumbai. In Mumbai, he joined Jai Hind College as an undergraduate and took up at the Mumbai's BEST Transport division.
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