Vinod Khanna 6 October 1946 27 April 2017 was an Indian actor and producer of Bollywood films He was the recipient of 2 Filmfare awards He was also an active politician He was the sitting MP from Gurdaspur between 19982009 and 20142017 He had advanced cancer of the bladder Vinod Khanna acted in lead roles in many superhit films and is best remembered for his performance in films like Mere Apne Mera Gaon Mera Desh Gaddaar 1973 film Jail Yatra Imtihaan Muqaddar Ka Sikandar Inkaar Kuchhe Dhaage Amar Akbar Anthony Rajput Qurbani Kudrat Dayavan Kaarnama Suryaa An Awakening and Jurm After making his debut in 1968 Khanna first acted in small second lead roles or negative roles His angry young man role in the movie Mere Apne his negative role as the main villain in the superhit movie Mera Gaon Mera Desh and his role in the crtically acclaimed movie Achanak based on K M Nanavati v State of Maharashtra as the military officer turned fugitive In 1982 at the peak of his film career Khanna temporarily quit the film industry to follow his spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh After a 5 year hiatus he returned to the Hindi film industry giving two back to back hit films Insaaf and Satyamev Jayate Khanna is popularly hailed as one of the most handsome lead actors ever in Bollywood