Birth Day: 1946-10-06
Place of birth: 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.
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As Rajdeep Oberoi -
As Randheer Bakshi -
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As Station Master Shankar -
As Prajapati Pandey -
As Victor Braganza -
As Abhay Rana Pratap Singh -
As Prajapati Pandey -
As Krishnaraj -
As JC -
As Palaash -
As Shrikant Shekhawat -
As Himself (uncredited) -
As Abdullah Khan/Godfather
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As Khalid Bin Zamal -
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As Nashaad -
As Awadesh Pratap Singh -
As Ranveer Choudhary -
As Suraj Khanna -
As Inspector Varun Saxena -
As ACP Siddhant -
As Randhir 'Junior' Mehra -
As Vishal 'Vicky' Kapoor -
As Deeka -
As Thakur Prithvi Singh -
As Raja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh) -
As Balbir -
As Insp. Vinod / Sunil Kumar / Dadu Kaliya -
As Ravi Yadav -
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As Karan -
As Dheeru -
As Inspector Shekhar Varma -
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As Samir Yogi -
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As Vishal -
As Police Inspector Veer Sehgal -
As Lalit Khanna -
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As Suraj Singh "Suryaa" -
As Amar -
As Self -
As Shakti Velhu / Dayavan -
As Inspector Amar Kaushal -
As Birju -
As Police Inspector Arjun Singh -
As Avinash Kapoor -
As Bhanu -
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As Shankar -
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As Raju Verma -
As Jamiya -
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As Amar -
As Kanhaiya -
As Ravi and Johny 'Babloo' -
As Prakash Khanna -
As Vinod -
As Rana Bhojraj Sesodia -
As Satish -
As Gajendra / Prince Vikram Dev -
As Inspector Raj Singh / Gopi Lathuria -
As Anand
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As Ajay R. Chouhan -
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As Vishal Anand -
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As Gopal / Jagan -
As Raja Dada / Raja Khanna -
As Inspector Amarnath Gill -
As Aslam Sher Khan / Shera -
As Ratan -
As Sagar -
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As Amar -
As Kishan -
As Ajay -
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As Advocate Jai Saxena -
As Daku Suraj Singh / Chimpoo -
As Sher Khan -
As Gopal -
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As Subhash Tripathi -
As Surajbhan Singh 'Sarju' -
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As Pramod Sharma -
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As Major Ranjeet Khanna -
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As Inspector Raj Kumar 'Raja'
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As Raju -
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As Amit -
As Inspector Hemant -
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As Jabbar Singh -
As Vijay Singh -
As Shyam -
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As Anil -
As Shyam -
As Self (shooting of "Mere Apne (1971)") (uncredited) -
As Anil Choudhury -
As Inspector Pradhan -
As Gopi's groom -
As Police Inspector Prasad