Dilip Kumar's childhood home in Pakistan is declared a heritage site

By Mail Today Reporter

Dilip Kumar was born in Peshawar

Pakistani authorities have purchased Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar's ancestral home for Rs 3 crore and declared it a heritage site.



Kumar was born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan at his family home at Mohalla Khudadad in the famed Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshawar on December 11, 1922.



The culture department of Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province recently bought the house from its current owner and declared it a heritage site.



Repairs of the three-storey building with six rooms will begin within two months. It will subsequently be opened to the public, officials said.



Kumar's relatives lived in the house till about eight years ago, when they sold it for Rs 56 lakh.



Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, had announced in December the government's plan to acquire the ancestral homes of Kumar and Raj Kapoor and give them heritage status.



Both the actors were born in Peshawar. Kumar recently wrote on his blog that he was moved by Pakistan's decision to preserve his childhood home.

The top floor of Raj Kapoor's actor father Prithviraj Kapoor's fivestorey house at Dakhi Nalbandi, Peshawar's highest point, collapsed years ago, but 60 rooms still survive.



Some relatives of Shah Rukh Khan still live in Peshawar.

Pakistani authorities have purchased Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Peshawar for Rs 3 crore and declared it a heritage site

Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, had announced in December the government's plan to acquire the ancestral homes of Kumar and Raj Kapoor in Peshawar and give them heritage status.



