Vinod Khanna Age

Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna was born on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India(now in Pakistan).

Vinod Khanna Family

Khanna was born in a Punjabi Hindu family to Kamla and Krishan chand Khanna 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.

Vinod Khanna Biography

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 epics Solva Saal and Mughal-e-Azam and fell in love with motion pictures.

He graduated with a commerce degree from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Sunil Dutt spotted Vinod Khanna after graduation, and he made his acting debut in Sunil Dutt’s 1968 film Man Ka Meet (directed by Adurthi Subba Rao) as a villain.

Government of India at 65th National Film Awards awarded Khanna posthumously awarded India’s highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2018.

In 1997, Khanna joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected from Gurdaspur constituency in Punjab in the next year’s Lok Sabha poll. No other Bollywood star has triumphed in four Lok Sabha polls (1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014).

He also served as Union minister of state for tourism and culture, as well as external affairs.

Vinod Khanna Wife

Khanna met his first wife Gitanjali Taleyarkhan in college. Khanna married Gitanjali in 1971. 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.

Vinod Khanna Son

Khanna married his first wife Gitanjali in 1971 and had two sons with her, Rahul and Akshaye; both became Bollywood actors. He also has a son from second marriage, Sakshi (born 1991)

Vinod Khanna Daughter

In 1990, Khanna married his second wife Kavita Daftary. They had a son, Sakshi (born 1991), and a daughter, Shraddha.

Vinod Khanna Image

Vinod Khanna Movies

After making his film 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 movie Mera Gaon Mera Desh, and as the military officer turned fugitive in the critically acclaimed movie Achanak, which was a film based on the events of K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra.

Later Khanna played lead roles in many films and people remembered him for his performances in Kuchhe Dhaage, Gaddaar, Imtihaan, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Inkaar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, The Burning Train, Qurbani, Kudrat, Parvarish, Khoon Pasina, Dayavan, Chandni and Jurm.

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.

In 1997, he launched his son Akshaye Khanna in Himalay Putra in which he also starred alongside him. In 1999, Vinod Khanna received a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the industry for over three decades.

Vinod Khanna Last Movie

The last movie he appeared in was 2017 movie “Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi”.

Vinod Khanna Died

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.

Although the news about his deteriorating health started to spread in early 2017, his family declined to disclose any information. Soon he died at 11:20 a.m. (IST) on 27 April, and it was revealed that he had been battling advanced bladder cancer.

His family cremated him at the Worli Crematorium on the same day.

Vinod Khanna Funeral

The funeral took place in Mumbai on 27 April evening where Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Subhash Ghai, Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff and Arjun Rampal reached to pay their last respects.

Vinod Khanna’s three sons Rahul Khanna, Sakshi Khanna and Akshaye Khanna accepted the condolences.