| 1 | Vinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017), the father of Creator/AkshayeKhanna, started out as a villain in UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} before graduating to TheProtagonist and {{Deuteragonist}} roles. He had trained in wrestling earlier in his life and more or less took over Creator/{{Dharmendra}}'s [[MrFanservice token gym rat]] function in the mid-seventies. He alternated between playing brooding but honorable types, and playing DarkerAndEdgier [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]]. He often teamed up with Creator/AmitabhBachchan. |
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| 3 | At the end of the seventies, he became a follower of a particular guru, or religious leader, and left his wife and children behind to move to America, where the guru had a following. When he came back to India in the mid-eighties, his career had lost a lot of momentum due to his absence. He maintains amicable but distant relations with his sons, actor Creator/AkshayeKhanna, and professional twitterer and DeadpanSnarker Rahul Khanna. |
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| 6 | !!Roles of note: |
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| 8 | * ''Film/{{Achanak}}'': an arthouse film about an injured soldier with psychological issues |
| 9 | * ''Film/AmarAkbarAnthony'': a comedy-adventure about three brothers who are separated in childhood and raised in different religions, before finding each other again and taking down the family nemesis. Also starring Creator/RishiKapoor and Creator/AmitabhBachchan. |
| 10 | * ''Film/{{Parvarish}}'': with Amitabh and the same director as Amar Akbar Anthony, it has a similar tone to the above but a different plot. |
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