Kolkata: Mathur Sen Garden Lane is a neighbourhood in Jorabagan area of north Kolkata which the Google GPS fails to pick up.
Hence, when Mithun Chakraborty said at his induction speech at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election rally earlier this month that he grew up in a dingy lane where sunlight hardly ever came in, it was not a mere rhetoric. The Bollywood folklore is replete with stories of strugglers turning into legends - be it a Amitabh Bachchan, Chakraborty or a Naseeruddin Shah, but it’s impossible to measure up to the enigmatic journey of this 70-year-old.
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