Mere Apne (1971) / Achanak (1973)One major filmmaker of the era who gave Vinod Khanna some meaty offbeat roles is Gulzar. Vinod Khanna plays an army man who discovers his wife’s having an affair and kills both her and her lover. His follow-up, Satyamev Jayate, directed by Raj Sippy, too scored big with Vinod Khanna delivering a knock-out performance as an embittered cop. Vinod Khanna never recovered from the failure of Dayavan and gave himself up to senseless potboilers. Lekin… (1991)In this bleak final phase of his career, Vinod Khanna was a pale shadow of his ’70s avatar.
