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Description: SONG:KYA DEKHTE HO MUSIC:KALYANJI ANANDJI LYRICS:INDEEVAR SINGER:MOHAMMAD RAFI & ASHA BHOSLE FILM:QURBANI Qurbani is a 1980 Indian Bollywood movie. The word "qurbani" means "sacrifice" in English. Produced and directed by Feroz Khan (under the banner of FK International). The film stars Feroz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Amjad Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Aruna Irani, Amrish Puri and Kader Khan. Qurbani became a box office success and the biggest hit of the year. Vinod Khanna also became the front runner for the superstar title. Its songs were a rage and the movie sold the most number of records and tapes in that year. Feroz Khan (25 September 193927 April 2009) was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry. For his flamboyant style, with cowboyish swagger and cigar toting persona which revolutionised the style quotient of the otherwise conventional Bollywood hero, he is known as the Clint Eastwood of the East and a style icon in the industry. He appeared in over 50 films in the 1970s and 1980s, and became one of India's best-loved heroes with his role in the 1980 hit film Qurbani, which he also directed. Khan followed this multi-disciplinary achievement by directing more successful films like Dayavan (1988) and Janbaaz (1986). He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Aadmi Aur Insaan in 1970, and was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.Feroz Khan was born in Bangalore India. His father was Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli, who was an Afghan originally from Ghazni province of Afghanistan and his mother (Fatima) came from Iran. He was raised and educated in Bangalore. His brothers are Sanjay Khan, Shahrukh Khan (business man)Sameer Khan and Akbar Khan (director). He has a sister Dilshad Bibi. After his schooling from Bangalore, he arrived in Mumbai where he made his debut as second lead in Didi in 1960.For the next five years, he was forced to play the second-to-last lead in most of the movies in which he appeared. Through the early 1960s and 1970s, he made low-budget thrillers opposite starlets. In 1962, he appeared in an English-language film titled Tarzan Goes to India opposite Simi Garewal. His first big hit was in 1965, with Phani Majumdar's Oonche Log, where he was pitted against screen idols Raaj Kumar and Ashok Kumar, despite which he gave a notable sensitive performance . Again, in the same year, he played a sacrificing lover in the mushy musical Arzoo, starring Sadhana. With this, Khan earned his entry into A-list second leads. With the film Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969), Khan won his first Filmfare award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He also appeared alongside his real-life brother Sanjay Khan in the hit films Upaasna (1967), Mela (1971), and Nagin (1976). He turned into a successful producer and director in 1971 so as to improve his career opportunities as a leading man with his first directorial film Apradh, which was the first Indian movie showing Car Race in Germany, and Mumtaz was his co-star in the movie. He produced, directed, and starred in the 1975 film Dharmatma, which was the first Indian film to be shot in Afghanistan and was also his first blockbuster hit as producer, director, and star and marked appearance of actress Hema Malini in a glamourous avatar. This movie was inspired by the Hollywood film The Godfather. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading Bollywood star, directing and starring in many of his films. The 1980 film Qurbani, with Zeenat Aman, was the biggest hit of his career and launched the singing career of iconic Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan, with her memorable track 'Aap Jaisa Koi' . In 1986, he directed and starred in Janbaaz, which was a box-office hit. which some consider to be one of his best movies, featured an all-star cast and was possessed of great songs and excellent cinematography. In 1988, he directed and starred in Dayavan, which was a remake of a South Indian film titled Nayagan. After directing and starring in Yalgaar (1992), he took a long break from acting for 11 years. He launched his son Fardeen Khan's career with the 1998 film Prem Aggan, which, however, was a box-office bomb. In 2003, he made his acting comeback as well as produced and directed Janasheen, which also starred his son Fardeen. He always used performing animals in his films—a chimpanzee and lion were used in Janasheen, He starred alongside his son again in Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena (2005) and made his last film appearance in Welcome (2007). Feroz Khan was ahead of his time in terms of his unmatchable style, which reflected in his movies and music. His movies like Qurbani, Dharmatma are cult favourites in Hindi cinema. Though he was not considered a superstar, he would remain the immortal for several years to come. Feroz Khan died of cancer on Sunday night 27 April 2009 at his farmhouse in the outskirts of Bangalore.