Veteran Bollywood actor and politician Vinod Khanna who was hospitalised due to 'severe dehydration', passed away on Thursday. A Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Gurdaspur district of Punjab, Khanna, was hospitalised in HN Reliance Foundation and Research Centre, on March 31 this year. "Mr. Vinod Khanna, who was admitted to the Hospital breathed his last at 11.20 am due to advanced bladder carcinoma," hospital said in a statement. Earlier, a picture of the actor in the hospital had gone viral on social media, sparking rumours that he was suffering from cancer. Vinod Khanna appeared in 141 films between 1968 and 2013 and also forayed into politics by joining the BJP.

Source: dna April 27, 2017 06:51 UTC