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New Delhi | By Asian News International. Jun 05, 2017 06:14 PM IST. Born in a Punjabi family to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman in Peshawar, Vinod...
Apr 27, 2017 · Vinod Khanna: Obituary of a maverick Bollywood hero. 27 April 2017. Khanna was known as a Bollywood hunk. A villain-turned-leading man of Bollywood, a bohemian at the feet of a hippy guru, a ...
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Khanna was born in a Punjabi Hindu family to Kamla and Krishanchand Khanna on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India (now in Pakistan). He had three sisters and one brother. Shortly after his birth, India was partitioned and the family left Peshawar and moved to Bombay(present-day Mumbai). He attended St. Mary's School, Bombay until class II an...
Debut and Breakthrough
Vinod was spotted by Sunil Dutt after graduation, and made his acting debut in Sunil Dutt's 1968 film Man Ka Meet (directed by Adurthi Subba Rao) as a villain and in which Som Dutt was the hero, a remake of the Tamil film Kumari Penn. At the start of his career, he played supporting or villainous characters in blockbuster films such as Purab Aur Paschim, Sachaa Jhutha, Aan Milo Sajna in 1970 and Mera Gaon Mera Deshin 1971.
Stardom
From playing villain Khanna successfully switched over to playing the popular hero. He got his first break as the solo lead in Hum Tum Aur Woh (1971) opposite Bharathi Vishnuvardhan and followed it up with Gulzar's Mere Apne. In 1973 his performance as an army officer facing death row in Gulzar's Achanak, earned him critical acclaim. In 1974 he played a college professor in Imtihan, which proved successful even in the face of stiff competition from Roti Kapda Aur Makan and Majboor. Amar Akbar...
Sabbatical
In 1982, Khanna took a break from the film industry to be with his guru Osho Rajneesh at the new Ashram in Oregon, USA. Earlier, Khanna had met his spiritual guru Osho (Rajneesh) sometime in the mid-1970's and had started visiting the Osho Ashram in Pune over the weekends for meditation. Khanna, who had taken initiation into Osho's neo-sanyas with the name Swami Vinod Bharti, also worked as a gardener at the Ashram. Around 1986, the Osho ashram in the US developed friction with the US governm...
In 1997, Khanna joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected from Gurdaspur constituency in Punjab in the next year's Lok Sabha poll. In 1999, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the same constituency. Later, he became union minister for culture and tourism in July 2002. Six months later, he was moved to the Ministry of External Affairs (M...
Khanna met his first wife Gitanjali Taleyarkhan in college. Khanna married Gitanjali in 1971 and had two sons with her, Rahul and Akshaye; both became Bollywood actors. In 1975, he became a disciple of Osho and in the early 1980s, moved to Rajneeshpuram.Khanna and Gitanjali settled for a divorce in 1985. In 1990, upon returning to India, Khanna mar...
Khanna was hospitalised at Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre in Girgaon, Mumbai, on 2 April 2017 for a few weeks after suffering from severe dehydration. He died at 11:20 a.m. (IST) on 27 April, and it was revealed that he had been battling advanced bladder cancer.He was cremated at the Worli Crematorium on the same day.
1975 – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Haath Ki Safai1977 – Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Hera Pheri1977 – Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Shaque1979 – Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Muqaddar Ka SikanderVinod Khanna at IMDbParliamentary Biography at the Wayback Machine(archived 11 December 2007)Vinod Khanna Net Worth. Vinod Khanna Biography. Vinod Khanna was film actor turned politician who served as an MP from Gurdaspur. He was born in a Punjabi Hindu family to Kamla and Krishan...
- 06 Oct 1946
- Vinod Khanna
- 27 Apr 2017 (Age 70)
- Peshawar (Now in Pakistan)
Name: Vinod Kishanchand Khanna. Birthday: Tuesday, October 8, 1946. E-Mail: vinodkhanna108@gmail.com. Contact: 9892600001. City/Town: Baramati. He is the sitting MP from Gurdaspur. He represents Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) In 1997, Khanna joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected from Gurdaspur constituency in Punjab in the next ...
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- October 8, 1946
Vinod Khanna was the only actor in the ’70 who could take on Amitabh Bachchan at his prime. (HT Photo) Born in a Punjabi family to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals...
Apr 27, 2017 · Entertainment. Movies. Vinod Khanna, the hero who started out as a villain. Updated - November 29, 2021 01:08 pm IST. Published - April 28, 2017 12:43 am IST. READ LATER. PRINT. A still from...
