Vinod Khanna
AKA: विनोद खन्ना
Birthday: 1946-10-06
Died: 2017-04-27
Birthplace: Peshawar
Vinod 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.
Filmography
Character: Shrikant Shekhawat
Character: Prajapati Pandey
Character: Major Ranjeet Khanna
Character: Victor Braganza
Character: Aslam Sher Khan / Shera
Character: Inspector Raj Singh / Gopi Lathuria
Character: Prajapati Pandey
Character: Thakur Prithvi Singh
Character: Inspector Amarnath Gill
Character: Ajay R. Chouhan
Character: Shakti Velhu / Dayavan
Character: Ashwini (Ram's Mom)
Character: Advocate Jai Saxena
Character: Inspector Pradhan
Character: Inspector Shekhar Varma
Character: Randheer Bakshi
Character: Inspector Raj Kumar 'Raja'
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Character: Inspector Hemant
Character: Abhay Rana Pratap Singh
Character: Inspector Varun Saxena
Character: Anil Choudhury
Character: Abdullah Khan/Godfather
Character: Police Inspector Arjun Singh
Character: Inspector Amar Kaushal
Character: Police Inspector Prasad
Character: Police Inspector Veer Sehgal
Character: Randhir 'Junior' Mehra
Character: Raja Dada / Raja Khanna
Character: Raja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh)
Character: Awadesh Pratap Singh
Character: Khalid Bin Zamal
Character: Self (shooting of "Mere Apne (1971)") (uncredited)
Character: Rajdeep Oberoi
Character: Rana Bhojraj Sesodia
Character: Avinash Kapoor
Character: Insp. Vinod / Sunil Kumar / Dadu Kaliya
Character: Vishal 'Vicky' Kapoor
Character: Suraj Singh "Suryaa"
Character: Daku Suraj Singh / Chimpoo
Character: Surajbhan Singh 'Sarju'
Character: Prakash Khanna
Character: Ravi and Johny 'Babloo'