Person Details

Birthday: 1946-10-06 04:49:13

Death: 2017-04-27 04:49:13

Aliases: विनोद खन्ना

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Peshawar

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Movie Involvements: 68

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Players
Average
5

Players

(2012) Victor Braganza
Insaniyat Ke Devta
Average
10

Insaniyat Ke Devta

(1993) Balbir
Mera Gaon Mera Desh
Average
6

Mera Gaon Mera Desh

(1971) Jabbar Singh
Halla Bol
Average
5

Halla Bol

(2008) Himself (uncredited)
Risk
Average
6

Risk

(2007) Khalid Bin Zamal
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
Average
6

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar

(1978) Vishal Anand
Parampara
Average
7

Parampara

(1993) Thakur Prithvi Singh
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
Average
7

Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki

(1978) Ajay R. Chouhan

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2016 Rajdeep Oberoi
2015 Randheer Bakshi
N/A
2014 N/A
2013 Ashwini (Ram's Mom)
Self
2012 Prajapati Pandey
Victor Braganza
2011 Abhay Rana Pratap Singh
2010 Prajapati Pandey
Krishnaraj
2009 Palaash
Shrikant Shekhawat
JC
2008 Himself (uncredited)
2007 Abdullah Khan/Godfather
Khalid Bin Zamal
2005 N/A
2002 Awadesh Pratap Singh
Nashaad
2001 N/A
1997 Inspector Varun Saxena
Suraj Khanna
1995 Randhir 'Junior' Mehra
ACP Siddhant
1994 Vishal 'Vicky' Kapoor
1993 Thakur Prithvi Singh
Raja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh)
Balbir
1992 Insp. Vinod / Sunil Kumar / Dadu Kaliya
Ravi Yadav
N/A
1991 Karan
Dheeru
1990 Vishal
N/A
Inspector Shekhar Varma
Police Inspector Veer Sehgal
Samir Yogi
N/A
1989 Lalit Khanna
N/A
N/A
Suraj Singh "Suryaa"
1988 Shakti Velhu / Dayavan
N/A
Inspector Amar Kaushal
1987 Avinash Kapoor
Police Inspector Arjun Singh
1982 Shankar
Bhanu
N/A
1981 Jamiya
N/A
Raju Verma
N/A
1980 Amar
Kanhaiya
Vinod
Prakash Khanna
1979 Inspector Raj Singh / Gopi Lathuria
Rana Bhojraj Sesodia
Anand
Satish
1978 Vishal Anand
N/A
N/A
Ajay R. Chouhan
1977 Inspector Amarnath Gill
Kishan
N/A
Sagar
Amar
Raja Dada / Raja Khanna
Aslam Sher Khan / Shera
Ratan
N/A
Gopal / Jagan
1976 N/A
Ajay
N/A
1975 Advocate Jai Saxena
Daku Suraj Singh / Chimpoo
Sher Khan
1974 N/A
Surajbhan Singh 'Sarju'
Pramod Sharma
Gopal
1973 N/A
N/A
Major Ranjeet Khanna
N/A
Inspector Raj Kumar 'Raja'
1972 Amit
N/A
1971 Shyam
Shyam
Anil
Vijay Singh
N/A
Inspector Hemant
Jabbar Singh
Self (shooting of "Mere Apne (1971)") (uncredited)
N/A
1970 Police Inspector Prasad
Anil Choudhury
Inspector Pradhan
Gopi's groom
Raju
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1997 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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