Bandra Demolition Has Connection With Bollywood Legend Sunil Dutt — Here's What Nobody Is Talking About

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• Bandra Demolition Has Connection With Bollywood Legend Sunil Dutt — Here's What Nobody Is Talking About Published By, Edited By Last Updated: May 23, 2026, 10:08 IST A resident of 44 years had one thing to say when Bandra's bulldozers arrived: "If Sunil Dutt were here, none of this would have happened." A court-ordered demolition drive near Bandra East station has left hundreds homeless as Western Railway clears land for a rail expansion.
• When bulldozers moved into Garib Nagar near Bandra East this week, one resident did not call out a politician’s name.
• He called out a film star’s.
• Sunil Dutt — actor, MP, and Bandra’s most beloved protector of the poor — has been gone since 2005. Twenty years later, his absence is being felt all over again.
• For decades, Sunil Dutt was the one man slum dwellers of Bandra trusted above all others.