The Kapoor Haveli, the family’s sprawling ancestral home in Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshawar was built by Basheswarnath Kapoor, the father of acting legend Prithviraj Kapoor. Raj Kapoor (RK) the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, was born in the house in 1924.The top floor of the five-storey house at Dakhi Nalbandi, Peshawar’s highest point, collapsed years ago but about 60 rooms still survive. After the Kapoor family left Peshawar following the Partition in 1947, the building’s ownership passed through several hands. Bollywood icon Dilip Kumar’s ancestral home too is located near the Qissa Khwani Bazar. Pakistani authorities have tried to acquire the crumbling building in recent years so that it could be preserved as a national heritage site but their efforts ran into rough weather because of legal cases. Kumar’s house is located in a corner of Doma Gali in Mohalla Khudadad, and the star was born there as Muhammad Yusuf Khan on December 11, 1922. He spent several years of his childhood in the Qissa Khwani Bazar or the “Market of Storytellers,” where travellers and traders from across Central Asia gathered to swap tales. Some relatives of Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan still live in Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar. I will show other bollywood celebrities houses in my next story.
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