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Vinod Khanna: The Dashing Bollywood Star Who Was Overshadowed By Amitabh Bachchan
GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE
|May 2017
He was a villain to begin with, but ended up as a hero with a legion of fans swooning over his good looks.
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Yet, Vinod Khanna, who once abandoned fame for a set of saffron robes, perhaps never got his due. For almost five decades, Vinod Khanna ruled the Hindi film world with his lush sideburns and dimpled chin, despite an active career in politics that began in 1997. As his death at 70 from bladder cancer was announced in a Mumbai hospital today, friends and fans stressed that it had brought an era to an end.
He was a hero who was overshadowed by a bigger star. In several films, Khanna acted with Amitabh Bachchan, and while the pair was a great success, the angry young man that Bachchan became synonymous with often stole the show.
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