Militant groups, including Taliban and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have destroyed and forced to close all cinema halls, cultural theatres and clubs and music shops.TORONTO - He's been called the ultimate showman, a cinema legend and one of India's most famous cultural figures. Peshawar suffered a huge knock to its cultural standing after becoming a hotbed of violence from the 1980s onwards, bringing an end to the golden era of the city. His brother Gama was imprisoned for seven years. Partition saw Taj Mohammad leaving Pakistan to escape arrest. His cousin Maqsood Ahmad told the Dawn that Shah Rukh’s father, Taj Mohammad Khan, and his brother Ghulam Mohammad Gama, were staunch supporters of Congress. Present day Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan, known as the King of Bollywood, also has links to the area, but his family home which is still in use has not suffered the same decline. My heart fills up with joy each time I receive the same news about the ancestral home of Yusuf Saheb in Peshawar in North West Frontier province which the provincial government has been repeatedly trying to turn into a monument for posterity,” Saira tweeted. “I wish the provincial government success in its efforts and sincerely hope that this time the dream comes true. Last year when the news broke about making Dilip Kumar’s house a museum, his actress wife Saira Banu took to twitter to thank the KP government. Incidentally Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, two great actors in the Indian film industry, first and last appeared together in the film ‘Andaaz’ in 1949. One such trip took him to Nainital where the movie’s production house Bombay Talkies owner, Devika Rani, accompanied by the master director Amiya Chakraborty, ran into the handsome Yousuf. The family’s business and personal travails ultimately led Yusuf Khan to step in to help his father. Parmar for Kumar’s elder brother Ayub Khan, who had been injured in a horse riding accident. According to the actor Dilip Kumar, his family of fruit merchants moved to Bombay seeking medical care under the surgeon Dr. The house is a five minute walk away from Prithviraj Kapoor’s house. It is there that the actor Prithviraj’s son Raj Kapoor, who became India’s youngest and most successful actor-director, was born.ĭilip Kumar was born as Yusuf Khan to Lala Ghulam Sarwar Khan and Ayesha Begum in Peshawar’s Khudadad area. Prithviraj Kapoor, considered a pioneer of Indian film and theatre world and whose family has continued to entertain global audiences through cinema, stayed in this Kapoor haveli. It was built between 19 by the legendary actor’s father Prithvi Raj Kapoor. Raj Kapoor’s ancestral home, known as Kapoor Haveli, is located in the fabled Qissa Khwani Bazar. The KP government claimed that the owners were demanding exorbitantly higher prices and blackmailing the authorities due to the importance of these premises. The owner of Dilip Kumar’s ancestral house has demanded Rs 25 crore for the property and the owner of the ancestral house in Peshawar of Raj Kapoor demanded Rs 200 crore. Their objections – the prime location properties have been severely undervalued. The price of Dilip Kumar’s four marla (101 square metre) house has been fixed at Rs 80.56 lakh (USD 50,517) while that of Raj Kapoor’s six marla house (151.75 square metre) at Rs 1.50 crore (USD 94,061) by the Archeological Department of Pakistan.Īccording to the Pakistani newspaper The Daily Jung, for a long time the owners were not willing to sell these houses as the government was not willing to pay the market prices.
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