Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday approved the release of 25,000,000 Pakistani Rupees to purchase the ancestral houses of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor located in the heart of this city and declared as the national heritage.
Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar Muhammad Ali Asghar, following a report of the Communication and Works Department, has fixed the price of Dilip Kumar's 101 square meters house for 8,056,000 Pakistani Rupees and Raj Kapoor's 151.75 square meters house for 15,000,000 Pakistani Rupees.
The archaeology department had sent a formal request to the provincial government for releasing over 20,000,000 Pakistani Rupees for purchasing both the historic buildings, where the two greats of the Indian cinema were born and raised in their early days before the Partition. After procurement, both the houses will be converted into a museum by the KP archaeology department.
Raj Kapoor's ancestral home, known as Kapoor Haveli, is situated in the fabled Qissa Khwani Bazar. It was built between 1918 and 1922 by the legendary actor's grandfather Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor. Veteran actor Dilip Kumar's over 100-year-old ancestral house is also located in the same locality. The house is in shambles and was declared as a national heritage in 2014 by the then Nawaz Sharif government.
The owners of the two buildings made several attempts in the past to demolish them for constructing commercial plazas in view of their prime location but all such moves were stopped as the archaeology department wanted to preserve them, keeping in view their historic importance.
Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar Muhammad Ali Asghar, following a report of the Communication and Works Department, has fixed the price of Dilip Kumar's 101 square meters house for 8,056,000 Pakistani Rupees and Raj Kapoor's 151.75 square meters house for 15,000,000 Pakistani Rupees.
The archaeology department had sent a formal request to the provincial government for releasing over 20,000,000 Pakistani Rupees for purchasing both the historic buildings, where the two greats of the Indian cinema were born and raised in their early days before the Partition. After procurement, both the houses will be converted into a museum by the KP archaeology department.
Raj Kapoor's ancestral home, known as Kapoor Haveli, is situated in the fabled Qissa Khwani Bazar. It was built between 1918 and 1922 by the legendary actor's grandfather Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor. Veteran actor Dilip Kumar's over 100-year-old ancestral house is also located in the same locality. The house is in shambles and was declared as a national heritage in 2014 by the then Nawaz Sharif government.
The owners of the two buildings made several attempts in the past to demolish them for constructing commercial plazas in view of their prime location but all such moves were stopped as the archaeology department wanted to preserve them, keeping in view their historic importance.
