Thursday 27 April 2017

Vinod Khanna - The original heartthrob of Bollywood, Veteran actor & Politician

Heartfelt condolences to the family & fans of the legendary actor

Zindagi to bewafa hai ek din thukrayegi...


Veteran actor Vinod Khanna (70), who was admitted to HN Reliance Foundation and Research Centre in Girgaum in south Mumbai, passes away. He was suffering from cancer.
The actor had been hospitalised since March 31. At the time, pictures of the frail and emaciated actor had gone viral, sparking concerns about his health. Khanna was the sitting MP from Gurdaspur.

Khanna acted in lead roles in many superhit films and is best remembered for his performance in Mere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Gaddaar (1973 film), Jail Yatra, Imitihaan, Inkaar, Kuchhe Dhaage, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, Achanak, Qurbani, Kudrat, Dayavan, Kaarnama, Dilwaale.
Khanna's sons Akshaye and Rahul, from his first marriage (to Geetanjali Khanna) are also actors, while he also has two children, a son Saakshi and daughter Shraddha, from his second marriage (to Kavita Khanna).

After making his debut in 1968, Khanna was first seen in small second lead roles or negative roles. In 1982, at the peak of his film career, Khanna decided to quit the film industry briefly to follow his spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh.
After a five-year hiatus, he returned to the Hindi film industry to give hit films Insaaf and Satyamev Jayate.

Khanna then joined politics in 1997 and got elected from Gurdaspur on a BJP ticket in the next year's Lok Sabha poll.
Later, during the time of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government he became Union minister for culture and tourism in 2002. He also became a minister of state in the Ministry of External Affairs. Khanna lost the 2009 election, but was elected again from Gurdaspur in 2014.




Vinod Khanna followed Osho Rajneesh to Oregon, US, in the early eighties. Reports say he worked the gardens at the Rajneeshpuram ashram and sang to the flowers every morning. He rarely visited India during this period.


 You were Amar, you are Amar will always remain Amar for all of us in our hearts.












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