Pakistan To Convert Rishi Kapoor's House In Peshawar Into A Museum
The Pakistan government has decided to convert Bollywood star Rishi Kapoor's ancestral home in the Qissa Khwani Bazar in Peshawar into a museum soon, heeding to a request by the actor.
The
Pakistan
government
has
decided
to
convert
Bollywood
star
Rishi
Kapoor's
ancestral
home
in
the
Qissa
Khwani
Bazar
in
Peshawar
into
a
museum
soon,
heeding
to
a
request
by
the
actor.
Foreign
Minister
Shah
Mahmood
Qureshi
said
thePakistan
government
will
make
the
actor's
house
into
a
museum.
"There
was
a
call
from
Rishi
Kapoor.
He
requested
that
his
family's
home
in
Peshawar
should
be
made
into
a
museum
or
some
sort
of
institution.
We
have
accepted
his
request," he
told
a
group
of
visiting
Indian
journalists.
Pakistan's
Interior
Minister
Shehryar
Khan
Afridi
said
Kapoor
telephoned
him
to
preserve
his
family's
house
in
Peshawar
and
we
are
responding
positively
to
his
request.
"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
will
will
transform
the
house
into
a
museum
soon,"
Afridi
said.
The
Kapoor
Haveli
in
Qissa
Khwani
Bazar
was
built
by
Basheswarnath
Kapoor,
the
father
of
Bollywood
icon
Prithviraj
Kapoor.
Raj
Kapoor,
the
son
of
Prithviraj
Kapoor,
was
born
in
Peshawar
on
December
14,
1924.
Theactor-director
is
best
known
for
a
string
of
hit
films
he
made
in
the
1950s
and
1960s.
The
Kapoor
family
left
Peshawar
after
the
Partition
in
1947.