PESHAWAR – The Pakistani government has decided to convert the ancestralhome of the Kapoor family, India’s most prominent cinema dynasty, into amuseum soon.
Heeding to Bollywood star Rishi Kapoor’s request, Foreign Minister ShahMahmood Qureshi said the Pakistan government will make the actor’s house inPeshawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazaar into a museum.
“There was a call from Mr. Rishi Kapoor. He requested that his family’shome in Peshawar should be made into a museum or some sort of institution.We have accepted his request,” Qureshi added.
Interior Minister Shehryar Khan Afridi said Kapoor had telephoned him topreserve his family’s house in Peshawar. “We are responding positively tohis request,” Afridi told the media.
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“He had called me and talked about making his ancestral home into a museum.Now the federal and provincial governments are working on this and willtransform the house into a museum soon,” Afridi added.
The Kapoor Haveli in Dhaki Munawar Shar was built by Basheswarnath Kapoor,the father of Bollywood icon Prithviraj Kapoor. Prithviraj Kapoor’s fatherbought the house in 1918. It was here that Prithviraj was married and wherehis first three sons were born. Two of them did not survive infancy whileRaj Kapoor was born in 1924.
