Shatrughan Sinha
| Shatrughan Sinha | |
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| Minister of Health and Family Welfare | |
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In office 22 July 2002 – 29 January 2003 |
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| Union Cabinet Minister, Shipping | |
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In office 30 January 2003 – 22 May 2004 |
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| Born |
9 December 1945 Patna, Bihar, India |
| Spouse(s) | Poonam Sinha (m. 1980) |
| Children |
Sonakshi Sinha Luv Sinha Kush Sinha |
| Parents | Late Shri B.P. Sinha |
| Alma mater | FTII, Pune |
| Occupation | Actor, Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | www |
Shatrughan Sinha (born Shatrughan Prasad Sinha on 9 December 1945) is an Indian film actor turned politician. Apart from being member of Lok Sabha (2009-2014, 2014-2019) and Rajya Sabha twice he was also Union Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Jan 2003-May 2004) and Shipping (Aug. 2004) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He was elected to 15th Lok Sabha in 2009. In 2016, his biography, entitled Anything but Khamosh, was released.
Sinha was born in Patna, Bihar in a Kayastha family to Bhubaneswari Prasad Sinha & Shyama Devi Sinha. He is the youngest of four brothers — Ram, Lakshman, Bharat and himself. He was educated in Patna Science College. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India Pune. Currently there's a scholarship being awarded on his name in the institute to Diploma students. He moved to Mumbai where he started his career in the film industry. He is married to former Miss India Poonam Sinha (née Chandiramani).
Shatrughan Sinha's first acting opportunity was playing a Pakistani military officer in Dev Anand's Prem Pujari. Subsequently, he got a small role as a police inspector in Mohan Sehgal’s Sajan in 1969. The release of Prem Pujari was delayed, so his first released film was Sajan. He played supporting roles in many films before appearing in Gulzar’s Mere Apne in 1971. He was cast along with Poonam Sinha then Komal in the movie "Sabak" (1973).
He later appeared in Dulal Guha’s Dost in 1974 and in Kalicharan in 1976.
Sinha was selected by Rediff as one of the most unconventional actors in Hindi cinema (the others being Ajay Devgan, Amitabh Bachchan, Irfan Khan, Rajnikant, Shahrukh Khan, and Sunil Shetty).
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