Vinod Khanna was one of the most popular actors of his time. The actor has appeared in various big budget bollywood movies and he turned as a politician who served as an MP from Gurdaspur. He was born in a Punjabi Hindu family to Kamla and Krishan Chand Khanna in Peshawar, British India (now in Pakistan). He had three sisters and one brother. There is an interesting incident of Vinod Khanna.
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, with whom Vinod signed two films ‘Jurm’ and ‘Prem Dharm’. ‘Prem Dharm’ was produced by actress Hema Malini’s uncle and starred her along with Dimple Kapadia opposite Vinod Khanna. Vinod was simultaneously shooting quite a few films due to which he was doing double shifts.
One day, Mahesh decided to shoot for ‘Prem Dharm’ in the night shift. It was a bed scene where Vinod was supposed to kiss Dimple and later hug her, before going to sleep. Vinod entered the dim-lighted set, changed his costume and took his position over the bed with Dimple Kapadia besides him. Mahesh kept the bare minimum light required for the shoot and started the camera by saying ‘action’. Vinod followed the scene by giving a few kisses to Dimple and later hugged her.
After which Mahesh wanted a recap, Mahesh had to shout ‘action’ bit louder than the last time, after which Vinod followed his instructions and started kissing Dimple. The moment he hugged her, Mahesh asked for a cut. But his voice failed to reach to his hero’s ears and Vinod kept hugging and kissing her again. He repeated his action and held her tightly. Dimple was in a big shock and was not able to understand what was going on. She tried her best to seek help from the director, but before he could realize, Vinod kept continuing his act.
Mahesh and a few of his assistants rushed into the sets and kept shouting ‘cut, cut, cut’. Before Mahesh could reach the main location, Vinod heard his voice and released Dimple. Dimple was in a state of shock and so was Mahesh. Dimple rushed to the make-up room, after which Mahesh confronted Vinod about his inhuman act. It is said that later, Mahesh made Vinod apologize to Dimple and convinced her that he was intoxicated and had lost his control as he was shooting such scenes after a long time.
On the work front, Vinod Khanna appeared in more than 141 films between 1968 and 2013 and is best remembered for his performance in films like Mere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Imitihaan, Inkaar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Lahu ke Do Rang, Qurbani, Dayavaan and Jurm. After making his debut in 1968, Khanna first acted in small second lead roles or negative roles. Vinod 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 has two sons - Rahul Khanna and Akshaye Khanna from his first marriage and two child from his second marriage.
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