I don't resemble my father, reveals Akshaye Khanna!

Actor Akshaye Khanna tells he doesn't look like his late father and actor Vinod Khanna.

Questioned if Akshaye would like to play his father's character in a biopic, Akshaye said, "To portray any real life character, you have to look like that person. I don't look anywhere close to my father... Not an option."

Vinod Khanna died in April after a prolonged illness at the age of 70. The actor was admitted to Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital in the first week of April after reportedly suffering from severe dehydration.

Questioned if he wants a biopic to be made on his father, Akshaye told, "I haven't ever thought about it so I can't say. But I think biopics by nature, I suppose as accurate as they can be, the better for an actor. It's very challenging as well as risky for an actor to portray a real life character because you are portraying some one who actually existed. So, it becomes really difficult."

Akshaye, 42, feels that one must think "10 times before portraying a real life person".

He will next be seen in "Ittefaq", a thriller movie, helmed by Abhay Chopra. It is an adaptation of the 1969 movie by the same name.

It would have been nice to have worked with Vinod Khanna after I was mature as an actor, admits Akshaye Khanna!

Akshaye Khanna, through numerous ups and downs, has accomplished 20 years in the movie industry. This year saw the ill-fated death of his father and veteran actor Vinod Khanna, and in an interview with a famous tabloid, Akshaye expressed his wish to have been able to work with his dad.

"I can’t remember a film that was offered to me where I got the chance to work with him. I worked with my dad in my first film (Himalay Putra), but it would have been nice to have worked with him after I was a little mature and experienced as an actor. I wish I had that chance," Akshaye disclosed.

When we had gotten the chance to interview the actor, Akshaye got open about the past 20 years in Bollywood. He told, "It's been beautiful. I can't say that I have any regrets, of course, one does stupid things. Especially when you start work at a very young age - when you are not mature enough to understand the responsibilities of being a professional actor. I was an especially immature person. I was 19 and I was not mature enough to understand my own responsibility. So yeah, I wish I was more mature, that's the way it was."

Akshaye further added, "I think as a journey...we've all done good films and bad films, some terrible films but I think that's going to happen in the future also. Nobody makes 100 percent correct choices except for Aamir Khan but everybody...we've been part of good films, we've been part of bad films. Some performances maybe liked, some maybe disliked but the focus should always be on the creative process. If one distances oneself from getting too affected by failure or too affected by success, so both things are easy or hard to deal with. They both have to be taken with a little pinch of salt and it's not easy. And I'm not just talking about the acting profession, I'm talking generally. In any profession, what one does - the focus should be on that. Yes, success will come, failure will come, there will be downs, there will be ups - that's part of life. As long as you want to keep the focus to improve one's self and keep the creative process going, if that's the focus then you will always be a winner."

Akshaye will next be seen in Ittefaq which is being directed by Abhay Chopra and also stars Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha. Ittefaq is scheduled to release on November 3, 2017.

Salman Khan is upset due to loss of 3 close people in film fraternity!

Salman Khan now launched the first trailer of his much anticipated movie Tubelight. The film has created a lot of buzz ever since the first teaser and the posters of the it released.

Amongst the excitement for the trailer and the film, Salman Khan seems to have been mighty saddened with the demise of three gifted stars of Bollywood - Vinod Khanna, Om Puri and Reema Lagoo.

While Om Puri passed away after suffering a heart attack in February 2017, Vinod Khanna breathed his last on April 28, 2017 after prolong illness. Reema Lagoo's demise shocked the industry people last week.

Captivatingly, Salman shared a very close bond with all the three stars. He has worked the most with all of them and it was but natural of him to be upset about this.

Currently, at the trailer launch of Tubelight, when Salman was asked about it, he told, "VK (Vinod Khanna) was an amazing person. He was our hero When I was shooting in Reeva, I came to know about Reema Lagoo ji's demise. It is sad I have lost three very close people in the last three four months."

He further added, "Whenever I see the teaser and the song, I see him and it kills me. I don’t enjoy watching the teaser and the song because I see him. One moment, he was there and then he was no more. This is my reaction to Tubelight’s teaser and Radio song."

Big B’s emotional tweet after Vinod Khanna's demise!

Hindi Film Industry woke up to the shocking news of Vinod Khanna's death yesterday. Numerous Bollywood celebs including Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff and his wife Ayesha Shroff attended the late actor's funeral. 

Post this, the senior Bachchan took to his blog to pen down an emotional message over the loss of an acquaintance. 

“Motionless... still... eyes shut in perpetuity .. a form on wooden logs .. covered .. flames about .. and a life turned to ashes,” Amitji posted.  

He then went on to describe the first time he saw the actor. “I first saw him entering the Ajanta Arts office in Bandra, of Sunil Dutt, where I was making my way to seek a job... a most good looking handsome young man... a body in elegant frame... a swagger in his walk... and a gentle smile as he looked towards me... it was 1969 .. he was working in the Ajanta Arts film, ‘Man ka Meet’ .. I was struggling to get a role, any role, anywhere,” posted Big B.

Further, Mr. Bachchan recalled both good and the bad times he had spent with the well-known actor.

“In time we met again within the same precincts .. he and I were working in the same film of Dutt Saheb, ‘Reshma aur Shera’ .. look trials in the office of the film .. travel and sittings on the story .. Thapa saheb, Ali Raza, Sukhdev and those all night meets, most novel for me .. my first brush with the way the film industry functioned .. the time for the shoot and the excitement of travel on a location in Jaisalmer .. the months we spent together and after .. driving in the scorching heat of the deserts of Rajasthan to the location, Pochina, in the sands of nowhere near civilisation .. living under one tent - Vinod, Ranjit, Thapa Saheb, Ali Raza saheb about seven of us in the same tent .. then similar number at a make shift residence in the city of Jaisalmer - Amrish Puri joining us in that room filled with all of us, living laughing, working .. carefree days .. the rigors of that location and its environs ..On return from the location his continued connect with me .. he a big star .. but always most humble with selfless concern for others .. the rides he would take me on, in his recently acquired Beetle VolksWagen, yellow in color .. his generosity in smuggling me into the only Disco Club in the city at the Taj, where he was a member, and I not even remotely in any state to become one .. his marriage to Geetanjali, whom he and we all fondly called Gitly .. the birth of his sons, Rahul and Akshay, whom he often brought on to the sets of Amar Akbar Anthony,” an emotional Big B posted.

He also stated about the remorseful incident with Vinodji. “That guilt-ridden incident when I had to fling a glass in a scene towards him and it accidentally hitting his chin, cutting him open right through to his teeth .. the remorse regret and guilt within me to date for that unforgiving accident .. rushing him to his doctor, late at night, getting stitched up, driving with him to his house to settle him in and to just keep apologising for this horrific accidental slip,” Big B posted.

Prior in the day, it was also reported that the actor had left an interview mid-way to visit the hospital as soon as he heard the news of Vinod Ji's death. Vinod Khanna died in a Mumbai's hospital at the age of 70 on Thursday morning. 

Vinod Ji's death has undeniably left a void which is impossible to fill.

Vinod Khanna passes away at 70 after fighting with cancer!

Veteran actor and sitting BJP MP Vinod Khanna passed away at the age of 70 on Thursday after a difficult battle with cancer.

Veteran Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna, who had been very ill since past few months, passed away at a Mumbai hospital on Thursday.

The actor, who was part of numerous Bollywood hits like Amar Akbar Anthony and The Burning Train, was admitted to the HN Reliance Foundation and Research Centre in Girgaon, Mumbai lately.

Reportedly, Khanna was suffering from bladder cancer but, his son Rahul Khanna had specified that his father got admitted to the hospital for severe dehydration. When a hospital picture of Vinod Khanna surfaced, it shocked his admirers as he looked like a mere shadow of his former dashing self in it.

Actor Vinod Khanna, a sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Gurdaspur district of Punjab, was born on 6 October, 1946. He was seen in 141 films between 1968 and 2013.

Khanna was also seen in lead roles in numerous popular movies, including Mere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Gaddaar, Jail Yatra, Imitihaan, Inkaar, Kuchhe Dhaage, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, Qurbani, Kudrat, Dayavan, Kaarnama, Suryaa: An Awakening and Jurm.

Vinod Khanna made his debut in 1968 with Mann Ka Meet. He went on to win many awards, including the Filmfare award for best supporting actor for Haath ki Safaai and the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

In 1982, at the peak of his film career, Khanna decided to leave the film industry briefly to follow his spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh.

After a five-year break, he returned to the Hindi film industry to give hit films Insaaf and Satyamev Jayate.

Khanna joined politics in 1997 and got elected from Gurdaspur on a BJP ticket in the next year's Lok Sabha poll. Later, during the time of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government he became Union minister for culture and tourism in 2002. Later, he became a minister of state in the Ministry of External Affairs. Khanna lost the 2009 election, but was elected again from Gurdaspur in 2014.

We offer our condolences to the Khanna family.

Dad is doing better, says Vinod Khanna’s son Akshaye!

Much rumor about veteran actor Vinod Khanna‘s health has been doing the rounds of late. The charismatic actor’s pic from the hospital went viral online. The picture which showed the veteran actor frail and pale left the entire nation heartbroken and gave rise to all kinds of weird conjectures and loose talk. The hospital is said to have even issued a medical bulletin stating that Vinod Khanna was doing better than earlier. But, the loose talk seemed to continue.

Finally son Akshaye Khanna stepped in and threw some light upon his Father’s health condition.

Seemingly, Akshaye has shared with a leading online publication that Vinod was doing better. This may assuredly herald some good news for admirers of Vinodji.

We wish for speedy recovery for Vinodji.

Big B’s emotional tweet!

The reports of veteran actor Vinod Khanna admitted to a Mumbai suburban hospital stunned the entire nation, a few days ago. In fact two backs a heart wrenching photo of the actor appearing extremely pale went viral with fans even requesting the media to not share such pictures.

The actor was admitted on account of severe dehydration, but, rumours suggest that the actor has been battling bladder cancer. The same day rumours of his passing away started doing the rounds.

Among all this, it was Superstar Amitabh Bachchan's cryptic tweet on colleagues passing away that stirred a hue and cry on Twitter. Taking to Twitter, Amitabh Bachchan posted, "Strange is it not, that the passing of the near and dear and colleagues, coerces one to start questioning one's own longevity!" Many started taking this as a validation for Vinod Khanna's death.

But, the rumours were put to rest after the hospital issues an official statement stating that the actor is recuperating and is presently stable. The actor was admitted to Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital on Friday with severe dehydration. He is under the care of our doctors and has responded positively to the treatment and is now stable. His family thanks his well-wishers for the good wishes and requests to respect their privacy," the hospital spokesperson said.

Considered as one of the most dashing star of his times, Vinod Khanna has shared screen space with senior Bachchan in numerous pictures including Parvarish, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Khoon Pasina, Zameer and Amar Akabar Anthony. 

T 2486 - Strange is it not, that the passing of the near and dear and colleagues, coerces one to start questioning one's own longevity ! pic.twitter.com/Bm6KMFSKTt

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) 6 April 2017

If needed, I’ll donate one of my organs to Vinod Khanna, says Irrfan Khan!

All the fans of veteran actor Vinod Khanna were in for a shock as they had a rendezvous of sorts with the actor read the newest picture of a weak Vinod Khanna in the hospital. Yes, a photo of Vinod Khanna, looking in extreme bad health, has gone viral on social media and has sparked rumors that the actor is suffering from cancer.

And like his other admirers, Irrfan Khan was also in a state of shock and has wished quick recovery to Vinod Khanna. At the trailer launch of his forthcoming film Hindi Medium, Irrfan Khan told, “My good wishes and prayers with him. I hope he gets well soon. If needed, I’ll donate one of my organs to him. I think he is the most beautiful person in the entire industry,” adding, “I saw his photo today and I was shocked. I pray to God for his good health.”

Speaking about movies, Irrfan remembered Khanna’s work and told, “I have seen all of his films. I still remember his Khoon Pasina, Mera Gaon Mera Desh. He is one of the most handsome man, extremely beautiful.” Now, that’s such a touching gesture, Mr. Khan!

Vinod Khanna was hospitalized on Friday night due to severe dehydration. In an interview to a famous tabloid, Rahul Khanna was quoted as telling, “Dad was hospitalized on Friday for severe dehydration. The situation was quickly brought under control, he’s doing much better and the doctors are looking to discharge him soon. Our family is most grateful for the extraordinary care he’s been receiving at the hospital and we are touched by all the good wishes pouring in.”