Dilip Kumar's Peshawar home declared national heritage

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Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar’s house in Peshawar has been declared a national heritage, said a report published in The Times of India (TOI).
Manzoor Ali Memon, spokesperson of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, told the TOI over phone that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared the ancestral house of the actor in Peshawar’s Qissa Khawani Bazaar as national heritage.
Memon added that the government would turn the house into a museum that would depict the journey of the legendary actor from Peshawar to Mumbai. A gallery would also be dedicated to the actor.
The Pakistani government would also invite Dilip Kumar for the inauguration ceremony.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit had even met the actor in the first week of June.
“The PM’s decision is testimony to the enormous importance Pakistan attaches to promoting art and culture and paying tribute to living legends like Dilip Kumar, whose contributions to the sub-continent cinema are unparalleled,” said Basit.
Kumar was born on Dec 11, 1922, in Qissa Khawani Bazaar, Peshawar, in a Pakhtun family of 12 children.
The legend entertained millions of people in his active years in cinema and always propagated the message of love, peace and humanity throughout his life

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Re: Dilip Kumar’s Peshawar home declared national heritage

Good move.

:clap:

This should be advertised more on media.

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^ hamaray media k pass itna time nhi, they are busy in politics :chai:

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bahot Khushii huii yeh sun kar...magar lagtaa hai k Yusuf saab kii tabii'at ab aisii nahiiN k vo safar kar sakeN...

mere Khayaal se MoHammad Raf'ii aur Raj Kapoor saaHibaan ke makaanaat ko bhii Heritage site qaraar denaa chaahiye. :)

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Pehlay aap Jinnah House ko national heritage qaraar dilvaaein, Bombay main. :snooty:

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bilkul…100%…mere bas meN hotaa to maiN use paidaa hone se pahle hii heritage site qaraar de detaa. :slight_smile:

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Jinah House is a disputed property.

Jinnah House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Recently Dina Wadia has been involved in litigation regarding Jinnah House claiming that Hindu Law is applicable to Jinnah as he was a Khoja Shia

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Inn baRay baRay mulkon main rehnay vaalon kay dil choTay choTay, choTay choTay kiyun hotay hain ? :teary1:

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I think its a good move.

Here is a pic of two legends of both countries..

1970s :: Actor Dilip Kumar with Pakistani Ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BseZpmZCYAAr9yD.jpg

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oh…i didn’t know about it being a disputed property.

is Jinnah’s daughter still alive?

btw, Wadia is a Hindu name to the best of my knowledge. did she marry a Gujrati Hindu? Dina is also not a Muslim name…i’m confused! :hmmm:

kiuN k baRe baRe mulkoN meN aisii chhoTii chhoTii baateN to hotii hii rahtii haiN! :cb:

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Re: Dilip Kumar’s Peshawar home declared national heritage

She married a Parsi. Her comment sounded like a guppan ‘when you can marry a Parsi lady, why I can’t marry a Parsi man’. :sadaf: Some guppans are so 1940s.

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lolzzzz…very true. Guppans have their own way of justifying things! :smiley:

but, why did she change her name to Dina…i don’t think it was her name given by her parents because it’s not a Muslim name of the sub-continent.

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I don’t get that logic? As a Shia, he is Muslim - being a Khoja has to do with biraadari or community/ethnicity and nothing to do with faith.

I get that the Khoja community is ancestrally of Hindu origin, but that was generations ago and if faith-based laws apply, then it should be Muslim laws of inheritance, not Hindu. What odd logic Dina and the Indian Supreme Court have :rolleyes:

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Muslims have Muslim Personal Law in India and in that original law other sects [other than Shi’a and Sunni] were not included [they shoul;d have been included]…they should change the law to include other sects.

if you are not a Muslim, the Indian Civil Law applies…it’s not a Hindu law. those laws were given mostly by the British during their Raj.

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Her mother was a converted parsi. When you have two parents from different faith systems (even if one converted to Islam for marriage) it's easily a coin flip between what you choose.

And Dina's a muslim/arabic name. She was born with it.

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oh ok...thank you.

it's an Arabic word? really? what does it mean?

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Love. :D

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oh...lol :D

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In an effort to strengthen cultural relations with India, the Pakistani government recently declared veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar’s house in Peshawar a national heritage and also plans to invite the legend for the inauguration ceremony.

While speaking to Times of India (TOI), Kumar’s wife Saira Banu said that she and Kumar were eager to make the trip to the newly protected Peshawar home in Qissa Khawani Bazaar.

“We shall go if the occasion arises. Inshallah, it’s a huge honour for Sahab, and he should be there personally. There are so many memories attached with that house," said an emotional Banu. “It is the highest tribute, and a reward for his work. He was very happy, and his broad smile manifested his gratitude. I could see tears of joy in his eyes,” she said.

The pair has already visited Pakistan twice since Kumar left Peshawar – once on invitation by former President General Zia-ul-Haq, and later to receive the Nishan-e-Pakistan in 1998, Pakistan’s highest civilian honour.

Banu also shared that although claims to the ancestral home have been disputed by caretakers, it is well-visited.

“Every year, his birthday is celebrated in that house by thousands of his well-wishers, and Sahab talks to them on con-call. They also visit us in India with stories from his birthplace. Those are his only connects with his childhood,” added Banu.

Earlier this week, Manzoor Ali Memon, spokesperson of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, told the TOI over phone that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared the ancestral house of the actor in Peshawar’s Qissa Khawani Bazaar as a piece of national heritage. A gallery dedicated to the actor would also be set up.

The move comes as part of a series of steps to pursue better relations with India and lessen the tensions on other fronts.

“It’d be wonderful if our government, too, would acknowledge his contributions," she said

Pakistan tribute to Dilip Kumar is ‘huge honour’: Saira Banu - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

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I’m so pleased to read this news. Always nice to the triumph of common sense.

Indeed, what a waste of taxpayers money. Who is ‘Dilip Kumar’ and what has he done for Pakistan? I understand that KPK Gov. is trying its best to make KPK a future tourist hotspot, and they probably thought it would be a good way to turn this tiny house into some kind of pilgrimage spot for die hard Bollywood lovers, preferably from India. But they don’t have to get that desperate.

I am not going to advocate that Culture and Heritage budget should be spend on making roads or whatever, but how about using that money wisely to promote and preserve existing historical sites as well as acknowledging some of the lesser known local personalities and heroes?