Oct 16, 2015  Vinod Khanna born 6 October 1946) is an Indian actor and producer of Bollywood films. He is also an active politician. He is the sitting MP from Gurdaspur.He appeared in.

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Vinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, film producer and politician. He was the recipient of two Filmfare awards. He was also an active politician and was the MP from the Gurdaspur constituency between 1998–2009 and 2014–2017. In July 2002, Khanna became the minister for Culture and Tourism in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet. Six months later, he became the Minister of State for external affairs.

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Vinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017)was an Indian actor, producer and politician. He was the recipient of two Filmfare awards. He was also an active politician and was the MP from the Gurdaspur constituency between 1998–2009 and 2014–2017. In July 2002, Khanna became the minister for Culture and Tourism in the Atal Bihari Vajpayeecabinet.Six months later, he became the Minister of State for external affairs.Vinod Khanna

Khanna played lead roles in many films and is best remembered for his performances inMere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Kuchhe Dhaage, Gaddaar, Imtihaan, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Inkaar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, The Burning Train, Qurbani, Kudrat, Parvarish, Khoon Pasina, Dayavan, Chandni and Jurm. Vinod Khanna

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After making his debut in 1968, Khanna first acted in supporting and antagonistic roles; as an angry young man in the movie Mere Apne,as the main villain in the super-hit movieMera Gaon Mera Desh, and as the military officer turned fugitive in the critically acclaimed movie Achanak, which was a film based on the events ofK. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra. Vinod Khanna

In 1982, at the peak of his film career, Khanna temporarily quit the film industry to follow his spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh. After a 5-year hiatus, he returned to the Hindi film industry with two hit films; Insaaf and Satyamev Jayate.Vinod Khanna

Khanna has been posthumously awarded India’s highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb PhalkeAward in 2018 by the Government of India at 65th National Film Awards. Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna Early life

Khanna was born in a Punjabi Hindufamily 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 Mumbai.

He attended St. Mary’s School, Mumbai until class II and then transferred to Delhi. In 1957, the family moved to Delhi where he attended Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. Although the family moved back to Mumbai in 1960, he was sent to Barnes School in Deolali, near Nashik. During his time at the boarding school Khanna watched the epicsSolva Saal and Mughal-e-Azamand fell in love with motion pictures. He graduated with a commerce degree from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

He loved cricket. “The public may think I am just another filmstar, but there was a time when I played fair cricket with (Test player) Budhi Kunderan. Later I played with Eknath Solkar at the Hindu Gym. I used to bat at No. 4 but settled for films the moment I realised I couldn’t be a Vishwanath! Even so cricket, not films, is my first love,” he wrote in The Illustrated Weeklyof India in 1979.

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Personal life

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 married Kavita Daftary, daughter of industrialist Sharayu Daftary. They had a son, Sakshi(born 1991), and a daughter, Shraddha.

Illness and death

Khanna was hospitalised at the Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center 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 advancedbladder cancer. Although the news about his deteriorating health started to spread in early 2017, his family declined to disclose any information. He was cremated at the Worli Crematorium on the same day.

Awards and nominations

Vinod Khanna won his first filmfare award for Haath Ki Safai.

• 1975 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Haath Ki Safai
• 1977 – Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Hera Pheri
• 1977 – Filmfare Nomination as Best Actor for Shaque
• 1979 – Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Muqaddar Ka Sikander
• 1981 – Filmfare Nomination as Best Actor for Qurbani
• 1999 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2005 – Stardust Awards – Rolej Model for the Year
• 2007 – Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2017 – Dadasaheb Phalke Award (posthumously).

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