They don’t make them like that anymore. Actors like Dilip Kumar and Prithvi Rajkapoor are borne once in a blue moon. Peshawar can pride itself on the fact that it has given to the film industry of the sub-continent gems like them. Besides, Peshawar has also produced many other notable actors like Prem Nath, Raj Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Hangal, Jaynt, Amjad Khan, Anil Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Qavi, Firdaus Jamal and director-poet Zia Sarhadi, to mention a few. The famous Bokhari brothers belonging to the world of radio also hailed from Peshawar. One of them nicknamed as Patras Bokhari has earned name also as an educationist and prose writer, par excellence.
In the not-too-distant past, during the course of last ANP government in the KPK it was decided that the houses where Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor were born and where Prthvi Raj spent his salad days in Peshawar were to be bought by the government and preserved as historical heritage. Initial spadework was done too in the matter but then there was utter silence in the matter after the present government entered the citadel of power in Peshawar. These houses have already decayed with the ravages of time and if they were not taken over, repaired and preserved they would collapse before long.
Will the concernced authorities in Peshawar jog into action, pick up the thread of the process where it was dropped with the change of government in Peshawar in 2013 and take over the possession of these houses? It will be a befitting tribute to both Dilip Kumar and Prthvi Raj, the likes of whom are not born everyday.
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