Vinod Khanna
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.
Known For
Acting
1979
asSatish
2009
asShrikant Shekhawat
1970
asGopi's groom
1989
asLalit Khanna
2010
asPrajapati Pandey
1992
asInsp. Vinod / Sunil Kumar / Dadu Kaliya
1977
asAmar
1974
asSurajbhan Singh 'Sarju'
1973
asMajor Ranjeet Khanna
1978
asVishal Anand
2009
asJC
1972
asAmit
2012
asVictor Braganza
1971
asShyam
1971
asJabbar Singh
1970
asAnil Choudhury
1977
asAslam Sher Khan / Shera
1974
asPramod Sharma
1979
asInspector Raj Singh / Gopi Lathuria
2012
asPrajapati Pandey
asRaju
1993
asThakur Prithvi Singh
1992
asRavi Yadav
1980
asVinod
1977
asInspector Amarnath Gill
1978
asAjay R. Chouhan
1977
asKishan
1988
asShakti Velhu / Dayavan
2013
asAshwini (Ram's Mom)
1980
asPrakash Khanna
1995
asACP Siddhant
1994
asVishal 'Vicky' Kapoor
1989
asSuraj Singh "Suryaa"
1977
asRatan
1974
asGopal
2010
asKrishnaraj
1973
as
1977
asGopal / Jagan
2014
as
1982
asShankar
2009
asPalaash
1970
asInspector Pradhan
1975
asDaku Suraj Singh / Chimpoo
1977
as
1971
asAnil
1980
asRavi and Johny 'Babloo'
1991
asDheeru
1993
asBalbir
1991
asKaran
2001
as
1990
as
1977
asSagar
1990
asInspector Shekhar Varma
1973
as
1990
asSamir Yogi
1973
asInspector Raj Kumar 'Raja'
2015
asRandheer Bakshi
1979
asAnand
1974
asSubhash Tripathi
1974
as
1989
as
2008
asHimself (uncredited)
1971
asInspector Hemant
1988
asSelf
1990
asVishal
1975
asAdvocate Jai Saxena
2011
asAbhay Rana Pratap Singh
1997
asInspector Varun Saxena
1971
as2007
asAbdullah Khan/Godfather
1980
asKanhaiya
1997
asSuraj Khanna
1987
asPolice Inspector Arjun Singh
1976
as
1988
asInspector Amar Kaushal
1970
asPolice Inspector Prasad
2005
as
1990
asPolice Inspector Veer Sehgal
1971
asShyam
1982
asBhanu
1975
asSher Khan
1995
asRandhir 'Junior' Mehra
1988
as
1977
asRaja Dada / Raja Khanna
1993
asRaja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh)
1990
as
1989
as
1980
asAmar
1981
asRaju Verma
2002
asAwadesh Pratap Singh
2015
as
2007
asKhalid Bin Zamal
1981
asJamiya
1971
asSelf (shooting of "Mere Apne (1971)") (uncredited)
1978
as
2016
asRajdeep Oberoi
1971
asVijay Singh
1972
as
1976
as
1976
asAjay
1992
as
1981
as
1971
as
1981
as
1982
as
2002
asNashaad
1979
asRana Bhojraj Sesodia
1977
as
1973
as
1978
as
1987
asAvinash Kapoor
1982
as
1972
as
asSelf
Production
1997
asCrew
Directing
