Sir — This refers to the report, “... ‘Amar’ to live forever in our hearts!” (April 28). Vinod Khanna wanted to become an engineer, and his father wanted him to help him in his business, but he ended up being a Bollywood star-turned sanyasi-turned social worker-turned politician. He indeed wore many hats during his lifetime.
People loved him for his dashing personality and his performances. From playing the role of a villain in movies like Mera Gaon Mera Desh and Purab Aur Paschim to that of heroes in block-busters like Qurbani, Amar Akbar Anthony, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar and Haath Ki Safai etc. If there was an male actor who challenged the supremacy of Amitabh Bachchan in those days, it was him, and the kind of meaty roles he had in all those Bachchan-starrers was testimony to this fact.