The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) authorities of Pakistan has set the authorized course of rolling to purchase the ancestral homes of two Indian movie legendary actors and mates Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, in Peshawar. The KP authorities has enacted a obligatory part of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 of the state, which authourises the federal government to take possession of each the homes on emergency foundation.
The quantity will quickly be launched to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Peshawar for cost to the landowners.
The value of Dilip Kumar’s 4 marla (101 sq. metre) home has been mounted at Rs 80.56 lakh (USD 50,517) whereas that of Raj Kapoor’s six marla home (151.75 sq. metre) at Rs 1.50 crore (USD 94,061) by the Archeological Department of Pakistan.
According to the Pakistani newspaper The Daily Jung, for a very long time the house owners weren’t prepared to promote these homes as the federal government was not prepared to pay the market costs. Their objections – the prime location properties have been severely undervalued.
The proprietor of Dilip Kumar’s ancestral home has demanded Rs 25 crore for the property and the proprietor of the ancestral home in Peshawar of Raj Kapoor demanded Rs 200 crore .
The KP authorities claimed that the house owners have been demanding exorbitantly increased costs and blackmailing the authorities because of the significance of those premises.
Raj Kapoor’s ancestral dwelling, often known as Kapoor Haveli, is positioned within the fabled Qissa Khwani Bazar. It was constructed between 1918 and 1922 by the legendary actor’s father Prithvi Raj Kapoor. Prithviraj Kapoor, thought-about a pioneer of Indian movie and theatre world and whose household has continued to entertain international audiences by means of cinema, stayed on this Kapoor haveli. It is there that the actor Prithviraj’s son Raj Kapoor, who turned India’s youngest and most profitable actor-director, was born.
These buildings , that are in shambles, have been declared a nationwide heritage by the provincial authorities of KP final 12 months.
In the previous, the house owners of the 2 buildings have made a number of makes an attempt to demolish them for establishing industrial malls in view of their prime location. Fortunately, this was stropped because the archaeology division wished to protect them, maintaining in view their historic significance.
The two houses are proper close to the two,000-year-old Qissa Khwani Bazaar (or Market of Storytellers). The Bazaar as soon as served as a tenting floor for the caravans of travelling retailers.
“Sometimes professional storytellers held court here, telling tales for the entertainment of the travellers. This is our cultural heritage and we take pride in preserving it. We are very proud that Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor were from Peshawar,” Abdul Samad, director of archaeology and museums in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province had advised the Pakistani media final 12 months.
Dilip Kumar was born as Yusuf Khan to Lala Ghulam Sarwar Khan and Ayesha Begum in Peshawar’s Khudadad space. The home is a 5 minute stroll away from Prithviraj Kapoor’s home. According to the actor Dilip Kumar, his household of fruit retailers moved to Bombay searching for medical care beneath the surgeon Dr. V. L. Parmar for Kumar’s elder brother Ayub Khan, who had been injured in a horse using accident. The household’s enterprise and private travails finally led Yusuf Khan to step in to assist his father. One such journey took him to Nainital the place the film’s manufacturing home Bombay Talkies proprietor, Devika Rani, accompanied by the grasp director Amiya Chakraborty, bumped into the good-looking Yousuf. The relaxation is historical past.
Incidentally Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, two nice actors within the Indian movie business, first and final appeared collectively within the movie ‘Andaaz’ in 1949.
Last 12 months when the information broke about making Dilip Kumar’s home a museum, his actress spouse Saira Banu took to twitter to thank the KP authorities. “I wish the provincial government success in its efforts and sincerely hope that this time the dream comes true. Mashallah. 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.
Present day Indian famous person Shah Rukh Khan, often known as the King of Bollywood, additionally has hyperlinks to the realm, however his household dwelling which remains to be in use has not suffered the identical decline. His cousin Maqsood Ahmad advised the Dawn that Shah Rukh’s father, Taj Mohammad Khan, and his brother Ghulam Mohammad Gama, have been staunch supporters of Congress. Partition noticed Taj Mohammad leaving Pakistan to flee arrest. His brother Gama was imprisoned for seven years.
Peshawar suffered an enormous knock to its cultural standing after changing into a hotbed of violence from the Eighties onwards, bringing an finish to the golden period of the town. Militant teams, together with Taliban and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have destroyed and compelled to shut all cinema halls, cultural theatres and golf equipment and music retailers.
Though the state of affairs is bettering, the shadow of militancy remains to be not receded.
There remains to be a ban on Bollywood movies in Pakistan however individuals of Peshawar love Hindi movies. After all Peshawar has delivered Bollywood’s three Iconic superstars!!
