LAHORE – August 1947 was a painful time for the region of Sub-continent when a land was divided into two separate states, India and Pakistan on the basis of Religious differences.
The Indian subcontinent was one country before 1947, many people from Pakistan and India share family histories. And the Bollywood stars are no different.
While some of them have ancestors that came from Pakistan and then settled in India or some, like Fawad Khan, of course, are actually born and bred in Pakistan. Let’s have a look at the list of Bollywood stars who have family background belonging to present-day Pakistan:
1# Amitabh Bachchan: Amitabh Bachchan’s mother, Teji Bachchan, was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, British India. That place is now known as Faisalabad, one of the biggest cities of the country.
2# Amrish Puri: Amrish Puri, the veteran actor was born in Lahore in 1932. He belonged to a Punjabi speaking family of Lala Nihal Singh Puri. Amrish Puri later moved to Shimla to continue his studies.
3# Dilip Kumar: Muhammad Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar was born in Peshawar, NWFP, British India now, of course, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
He was born in 1922 to a Hindko speaking Awan family. Dilip Kumar’s house is near the famous Qissa Khawani Bazar. In the late 1930’s his family moved to Mumbai, India.
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4# Gulzar: The famous poet and author, Sampooran Singh Kalra, more commonly known as Gulzar, was born in Dina City, Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. He was born in a Sikh family which later moved to India, after partition.
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5#Govinda: Arun Kumar Ahuja, the father of Govinda, was born in Gujranwala, Punjab, British India. Arun Kumar was also a famous actor. After partition, Govinda’s family moved to Mumbai where Govinda was born.
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6# The Kapoor Family: The patriarch Prithviraj Kapoor, the first ‘Kapoor’, as the Indian cinema folks like to call him, was an actor born in Lyallpur, Punjab in 1906.
He later moved to Peshawar and completed his higher education from Edward’s College in Peshawar. There, his son Raj Kapoor, father of Rishi Kapoor, was born in Peshawar. The other two, Shammi & Shashi, were born in regions that are now part of Indian territory, though.
7# Vivek Oberoi:
The one-time promising actor, Vivek Oberoi’s father, Suresh Oberoi – actor, was born in Quetta, Balochistan in 1946. Vivek is originally from a Punjabi family, although, within a year of Suresh Oberoi’s birth his family relocated to Hyderabad, India due to partition.
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