Name
Vinod Khanna
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1946-10-06
Deathday
2017-04-27 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Peshawar
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.
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- 1979 Do Shikaari as Satish
- 2009 Wanted as Shrikant Shekhawat
- 1970 Purab Aur Pachhim as Gopi's groom
- 1989 Chandni as Lalit Khanna
- 2010 Dabangg as Prajapati Pandey
- 1992 Humshakal as Insp. Vinod / Sunil Kumar / Dadu Kaliya
- 1977 Amar Akbar Anthony as Amar
- 1974 Patthar Aur Payal as Surajbhan Singh 'Sarju'
- 1973 Achanak as Major Ranjeet Khanna
- 1978 Muqaddar Ka Sikandar as Vishal Anand
- 2009 99 as JC
- 1972 Parichay as Amit
- 2012 Players as Victor Braganza
- 1971 Mere Apne as Shyam
- 1971 Mera Gaon Mera Desh as Jabbar Singh
- 1970 Aan Milo Sajna as Anil Choudhury
- 1977 Khoon Pasina as Aslam Sher Khan / Shera
- 1974 Imtihan as Pramod Sharma
- 1979 Lahu Ke Do Rang as Inspector Raj Singh / Gopi Lathuria
- 2012 Dabangg 2 as Prajapati Pandey
- 1972 Do Yaar as Raju
- 1993 Parampara as Thakur Prithvi Singh
- 1992 Nishchaiy as Ravi Yadav
- 1980 The Burning Train as Vinod
- 1977 Inkaar as Inspector Amarnath Gill
- 1978 Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki as Ajay R. Chouhan
- 1977 Parvarish as Kishan
- 1988 Dayavan as Shakti Velhu / Dayavan
- 2013 Ramaiya Vastavaiya as Station Master Shankar
- 1980 Zalim as Prakash Khanna
- 1995 Hulchul as ACP Siddhant
- 1994 Ekka Raja Rani as Vishal 'Vicky' Kapoor
- 1989 Suryaa: An Awakening as Suraj Singh "Suryaa"
- 1977 Maha Badmaash as Ratan
- 1974 Chowkidar as Gopal
- 2010 Red Alert: The War Within as Krishnaraj
- 1973 Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara
- 1977 Adha Din Adhi Raat as Gopal / Jagan
- 2014 Koyelaanchal
- 1982 Insaan as Shankar
- 2009 Fast Forward as Palaash
- 1970 Sachaa Jhutha as Inspector Pradhan
- 1975 Zameer as Daku Suraj Singh / Chimpoo
- 1977 Hatyara
- 1971 Preetam as Anil
- 1980 Garam Khoon as Ravi and Johny 'Babloo'
- 1993 Insaniyat Ke Devta as Balbir
- 1991 Farishtay as Dheeru
- 1991 Khoon Ka Karz as Karan
- 2001 Deewaanapan as Ranveer Choudhary
- 1990 Kaaranama
- 1977 For Your Sake as Sagar
- 1990 Jurm as Inspector Shekhar Varma
- 1973 Kuchhe Dhaage
- 1990 Lekin... as Samir Yogi
- 1973 Gaddaar as Inspector Raj Kumar 'Raja'
- 2015 Dilwale as Randheer Bakshi
- 1979 Sarkari Mehman as Anand
- 1974 Aarop as Subhash Tripathi
- 1974 Haath Ki Safai
- 1989 Batwara
- 2008 Halla Bol as Himself (uncredited)
- 1971 Jaane Anjaane as Inspector Hemant
- 1988 Akarshan as Self
- 1990 Maha-Sangram as Vishal
- 1975 Qaid as Advocate Jai Saxena
- 2011 Tell Me O Kkhuda as Abhay Rana Pratap Singh
- 1997 Dhaal as Inspector Varun Saxena
- 1971 Elaan
- 2007 Godfather The Legend Continues as Abdullah Khan/Godfather
- 1980 Bombay 405 Miles as Kanhaiya
- 1997 Himalay Putra as Suraj Khanna
- 1987 Satyamev Jayate as Police Inspector Arjun Singh
- 1976 Nehle Pe Dehla
- 1988 Aakhri Adaalat as Inspector Amar Kaushal
- 1970 Mastana as Police Inspector Prasad
- 2005 Pehchaan: The Face of Truth
- 1990 C.I.D. as Police Inspector Veer Sehgal
- 1971 Rakhwala as Shyam
- 1982 Rajput as Bhanu
- 1975 Prem Kahani as Sher Khan
- 1995 Janam Kundli as Randhir 'Junior' Mehra
- 1988 Rihaee as Amar
- 1977 Chor Sipahee as Raja Dada / Raja Khanna
- 1993 Kshatriya as Raja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh)
- 1990 Pathar Ke Insan
- 1989 Mahaadev
- 1980 Qurbani as Amar
- 1981 Jail Yatra as Raju Verma
- 2002 Kranti as Awadesh Pratap Singh
- 2015 Chooriyan
- 2007 Risk as Khalid Bin Zamal
- 1981 Ek Aur Ek Gyarah as Jamiya
- 1971 Guddi as Self (shooting of "Mere Apne (1971)") (uncredited)
- 1978 Khoon Ki Pukaar
- 2016 Downtown as Rajdeep Oberoi
- 1971 Reshma Aur Shera as Vijay Singh
- 1972 Ek Hasina Do Diwane
- 1976 Shaque
- 1976 Hera Pheri as Ajay
- 1992 Waqt Ka Badshah
- 1981 Khuda Kasam
- 1971 Hum Tum Aur Woh
- 1981 Kudrat
- 1982 Daulat
- 2002 Leela as Nashaad
- 1979 Meera as Rana Bhojraj Sesodia
- 1977 Jallian Wala Bagh
- 1973 Anokhi Ada
- 1978 Daku Aur Jawan
- 1987 Insaaf as Avinash Kapoor
- 1982 Taaqat
- 1972 Ek Bechara
- 1978 Khoon Ka Badla Khoon
- 1988 Faisla as Birju
- 1974 Kunwara Baap
- 1994 Eena Meena Deeka as Deeka
- 1979 Yuvraaj as Gajendra / Prince Vikram Dev
- 2013 Comedy Nights with Kapil ( 1 episode ) as Self
