Hindi Film 101: The Feroz Khan Family, Qurbani and Zeenat Aman’s Eye Socket

There are so many Khans around! Because it is a very common name/title in the northern regions where Urdu is spoke and men are tall and handsome and refugees fled in droves to Bombay in the 1940s. But there’s only one Khan family in Hindi film, all the other little Khanses aren’t actually related to each other. Isn’t that interesting?

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Friday Classics: Qurbani! The Best Movie of This Kind of Movie

Did you know Feroz Khan and Vinod Khanna share a death anniversary?  And it’s today?  That’s kind of spooky, Jefferson-Adams 4th of July level spooky*.  Clearly the experience of making Qurbani together was so important that it bonded them a deep level.

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