Peshawar home of Dilip Kumar may be preserved!

Peshawar home of Dilip Kumar may be preserved!
Thursday, October 10, 2013 13:00 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Crickter turned politician Imran Khan's Tehrik-e-Insaaf party MLA Arif Yusaf in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has mooted a proposal for preserving Bollywood icon Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Peshawar as a national heritage site.

The lawmaker Arif yusaf who is also a provincial parliamentary secretary for culture visited the Indian actor's home at Mohallah Khudadad in the historic old quarters of Peshawar recently.

The visit was arranged by the Cultural Heritage Council (CHC), a heritage organization that has been pushing for the preservation of the homes of Bollywood stars in Peshawar.

Yusaf sought technical proposals from CHC with ways and means to preserve the building. He also sought CHC's help to identify ways to give the building the status of a "protected national monument" under relevant laws.

The lawmaker said he had made the visit to see for himself the state of the building. He said he felt reassured because the building was intact from a structural engineering point of view.

With minor conservation work, it could be restored and turned into a living museum dedicated to all cinema artists who originally belonged to Peshawar, Yusuf said.


He acknowledged Dilip Kumar was a son of the soil and Peshawar was proud of the hero. The homes of Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar in the city deserve to be conserved, he added.

Yusuf said he will also personally take up the matter with the Chief Minister and the Culture Minister.

The previous Awami National Party government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa had drawn up ambitious plans to preserve the homes of both Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor. However, an unseemly squabble between several persons who laid claim to Dilip Kumar's home, including some of the actor's relatives, put paid to the ANP's plans to buy the two-storey structure.
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