“Vinod Khanna was a son of Mehr Chand Khanna, a distinguished businessman and former apportion from Congress Party. He was innate in Peshawar on Oct 6, 1946 during Sardar area in a Cantonment’s jurisdiction,” Mohammad Ibrahim Zia, a famous film historian from Peshawar, said.
Mr Zia pronounced that he had met Vinod Khanna in 2014 during a revisit to India being a member of a commission that went to enquire after a tip Indian film attention legend, Dilip Kumar, who also belonged to Peshawar.
“During a visit, we had a assembly with Vinod Khanna in New Delhi, who was really happy over reunion with people of his hearth (Peshawar),” he recalled.
He pronounced that Mehr Chand Khanna was a affluent chairman of Peshawar and had migrated to India in 1947. At a time of migration, Vinod Khanna was an infant, though he had adore for a city of his birth.
Mr Zia removed that in late 1990s during a duty hold in Dubai Vinod Khanna had announced on a theatre with honour that he was a ‘Peshawari’.
He pronounced that a ancestral home of Vinod Khanna was total and currently in use of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa section of All Pakistan Women’s Association.
During a assembly with Vinod Khanna, Zia recalled, a commission presented him gifts, including ‘Peshawari Chappal’ (sandals) and normal dress, that he supposed really happily. Mr Zia combined that he also presented a duplicate of his book, Peshawar Kay Funkar (The Artists of Peshawar), to a fable star.
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