Legendary Bollywood showman Raj Kapoor\u2019s ancestral home in Pakistan\u2019s walled city of Peshawar is to be converted into a museum by the end of this year. The house, owned by Raj Kapoor\u2019s grandfather D Bashisharnath, is situated in Mohallah Dhaki Munawar Shah where, Raj Kapoor was born to Prithviraj Kapoor on December 14 1924.<\/p>\n
Shaikh Amjad Rasheed, the chairman of IMGC Global Entertainment in Pakistan, has taken the initiative of renovating the haveli and converting it into a museum, reports The Express Tribune.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are planning to renovate Prithviraj Kapoor\u2019s five-storey house and turn it into a museum. We are in continuous interaction with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government and hope that we will soon get the green light to acquire the house from its present owners as soon as possible,\u201d said Rasheed.<\/p>\n
Minister for Culture, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said anyone who is taking such an initiative is \u201cmore than welcome\u201d and that the K-P government aims to work hard to promote culture and arts as much as they can, while defeating terrorism.<\/p>\n
Rasheed said the house is a source of pride for the inhabitants of Peshawar and they would like to protect its rich heritage. He elaborates that the house is of great historical significance to the city and should be rightfully preserved and dedicated to Raj Kapoor\u2019s life and work. <\/p>\n
Careful renovations will take place so that the house is appropriately rehabilitated, keeping its original structure intact, he said.<\/p>\n
Rasheed claims that the plans for the upcoming project have also been shared with Raj Kapoor\u2019s grandson, Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor, who Rasheed says was \u201cextremely happy\u201d to hear the news.<\/p>\n
Rasheed added that Ranbir expressed a keen desire to visit Peshawar along with his family for the inauguration of the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Legendary Bollywood showman Raj Kapoor\u2019s ancestral home in Pakistan\u2019s walled city of Peshawar is to be converted into a museum by the end of this year. The house, owned by Raj Kapoor\u2019s grandfather D Bashisharnath, is situated in Mohallah Dhaki Munawar Shah where, Raj Kapoor was born to Prithviraj Kapoor on December 14 1924. Shaikh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}