Vinod Khanna

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Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna (on the left), as pictured on the Qurbani film DVD
Born 6 October 1946
Peshawar, Pakistan
Residence Mumbai
Office Member of Parliament
Constituency Gurdaspur
Political party BJP
Spouse Kavita
Children 3 sons and 1 daughter

As of September 22, 2006
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Vinod Khanna (born 6 October 1946) is an Indian actor, film producer and politician.

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[edit] Early life

Vinod Khanna was born in Peshawar, India (now in Pakistan). After partition, his family migrated to Punjab, India. His family, first settled in the holy city of Amritsar after partition and later moved to Ludhiana. He schooled at Barnes School, Deolali and graduated from Mumbai's Sydenham college. He married in the late 1960s and his first son Rahul Khanna was born in 1972. His second son Akshaye Khanna was born in 1975.

[edit] Career

Vinod Khanna debuted in Sunil Dutt's 1968 film Man Ka Meet as a villain. He acted in multi-starrer or negative roles until his big break in the 1971, Gulzar directed, Mere Apne. His sensitive performance as an army officer facing death row in another Gulzar scripted and directed film Achanak (1973) was critically acclaimed. The songless film echoed the true life story of K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra and Khanna portrayed Kawas Nanavati, the real life Navy officer.

He went on to star in many hits throughout the 70s and 80s, including Parvarish (1977), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Muqaddar Ka Sikander (1978) and Qurbani (1980). Having peaked in Bollywood, he became a follower of Osho Rajneesh and left the film industry in 1979 for eight years. At this time, he was the most successful actor in the Bollywood, competing with Amitabh Bachchan. He rejoined the industry, eight years later in mid 1980s. He starred in hits such as Dayavan (1988), Chandni (1989), Eeena Meena Deeka (1994) and Ekka Raja Rani (1994).

In 1997 he introduced his son Akshaye in the film Himalay Putra which he produced and also starred in. He has since acted in fewer films playing character roles. His most recent films were Deewaanapan (2002) and Risk (2007).

[edit] Politics

In 1997, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was nominated from Gurdaspur, East Punjab in the next year's Lok Sabha poll.

The star-factor helped him oust five time Lok Sabha member Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder. Bhinder's perceived inability to develop the area outweighed the "outsider" tag applied to Khanna. The latter became union minister for culture and tourism in July 2002.

Six months later he was moved to the more important ministry of external affairs (MEA) as minister of state.

He was the highest taxpayer in Mumbai in 1990-91. Presently, he continues to participate in the film business based out of Dubai. His sons Akshay Khanna and Rahul Khanna are Hindi film actors.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Selected Filmography

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