Bollywood actors are very much liked in Pakistan and fans of Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and other heroines are in very large number. Some of the Bollywood celebrities had visited Pakistan in past. Some legendary actors have also been born in Peshawar.
Those actors which have born in Peshawar, Pakistan are as follows (According to Jang newspaper report):
- Prithviraj Kapoor (3 November 1901 – 29 May 1972), [According to wikipedia he was born in Lyallpur now Faisalabad]
- Dilip Kumar (born 11 December 1922)
- Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988)
- Premnath Malhotra (21 November 1926 – 3 November 1992)
- Surinder Kapoor (23 December 1925 – 24 September 2011). Surinder Kapoor was father of Anil Kapoor
- Madhubala (14 February 1933 – 23 February 1969) Madhubala was born as Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi. Accodirng to wikipedia she was born in Delhi to a Muslim couple from Peshawar in Pakistan
- Amjad Khan (12 November 1940 – 27 July 1992), [According to wikipedia he was born in Quetta]
- Vinod Khanna (born 6 October 1946)
December 12, 2012