Vinod Khanna
Birthday: 1946-10-06 | Place of Birth: PeshawarVinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor and producer of Bollywood films. He was the recipient of 2 Filmfare awards. He was also an active politician. He was the sitting MP from Gurdaspur (between 1998-2009 and 2014-2017). He had advanced cancer of the bladder. Vinod Khanna acted in lead roles in many superhit films and is best remembered for his performance in films like Mere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Gaddaar (1973 film), Jail Yatra, Imtihaan, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Inkaar, Kuchhe Dhaage, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, Qurbani, Kudrat, Dayavan, Kaarnama, Suryaa: An Awakening and Jurm. After making his debut in 1968, Khanna first acted in small second lead roles or negative roles. His angry young man role in the movie Mere Apne, his negative role as the main villain in the superhit movie Mera Gaon Mera Desh and his role in the crtically acclaimed movie Achanak based on K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra, as the military officer turned fugitive. 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 giving two back to back hit films Insaaf and Satyamev Jayate. Khanna is popularly hailed as one of the most handsome lead actors ever in Bollywood.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Rajdeep Oberoi
as Randheer Bakshi
as Ashwini (Ram's Mom)
as Prajapati Pandey
as Victor Braganza
as Abhay Rana Pratap Singh
as Krishnaraj
as Prajapati Pandey
as JC
as Palaash
as Shrikant Shekhawat
as Himself (uncredited)
as Abdullah Khan/Godfather
as Khalid Bin Zamal
as Awadesh Pratap Singh
as Nashaad
as Inspector Varun Saxena
as Suraj Khanna
as ACP Siddhant
as Randhir 'Junior' Mehra
as Vishal 'Vicky' Kapoor
as Balbir
as Raja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh)
as Thakur Prithvi Singh
as Insp. Vinod / Sunil Kumar / Dadu Kaliya
as Ravi Yadav
