Vinod Khanna conferred Dadasaheb Phalke Award posthumously
New Delhi
April 13,2018
Actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna, who died last year, has been conferred
the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- the highest cinema honour in India --
posthumously.
It was a collective decision of the 65th National Film
Awards jury, chaired by filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, to confer the award on Vinod
Khanna, who starred in some of the biggest Bollywood hits like "Mere Apne",
"Insaaf" "Parvarish" "Muqaddar Ka Sikandar", "Qurbani", "Dayavaan", "Mera Gaon
Mera Desh", "Chandni", "The Burning Train" and "Amar, Akbar, Anthony".
Kapur told the media here on Friday that he wishes he had worked with Vinod
Khanna at least once.
Vinod Khanna died in Mumbai on April 27 last year
after prolonged illness. He was 70.
The actor was the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) member of the Lok Sabha from Punjab's Gurdaspur constituency.
New Delhi
April 13,2018
Actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna, who died last year, has been conferred
the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- the highest cinema honour in India --
posthumously.
It was a collective decision of the 65th National Film
Awards jury, chaired by filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, to confer the award on Vinod
Khanna, who starred in some of the biggest Bollywood hits like "Mere Apne",
"Insaaf" "Parvarish" "Muqaddar Ka Sikandar", "Qurbani", "Dayavaan", "Mera Gaon
Mera Desh", "Chandni", "The Burning Train" and "Amar, Akbar, Anthony".
Kapur told the media here on Friday that he wishes he had worked with Vinod
Khanna at least once.
Vinod Khanna died in Mumbai on April 27 last year
after prolonged illness. He was 70.
The actor was the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) member of the Lok Sabha from Punjab's Gurdaspur constituency.
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