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Description: Feroz Khan (Hindi: फ़िरोज़ ख़ान, Urdu/language: فېروز خان) (September 25, 1939April 27, 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 Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli hailed from a Persian speaking tribe in the Ghazni Province of Afghanistan and his mother Bibi Fatima was from Iran. His family was among several Persian speaking families of Hyderabad, India and who setteled in Bangalore for new opportunities. 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 Mumtaaz 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 [7]. This movie was inspired by the Hollywood film The Godfather. 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. In May 2006, Feroz Khan was blacklisted by then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf when he went there to promote his brother's film, Taj Mahal. In an intelligence report submitted to the Musharraf, he was said to have insulted Pakistani singer and anchor Fakhr-e-Alam and criticizing the country saying: "I am a proud Indian. India is a secular country. The Muslims there are making lot of progress unlike in Pakistan. Our President is a Muslim and our Prime Minister a Sikh. Pakistan was made in the name of Islam, but look how the Muslims are killing Muslims here." Pakistan's high commission in India and the foreign and interior ministries were subsequently directed to deny Khan a visa in the future, although he denied ever making such comments and thanked the people of Pakistan for receiving Taj Mahal with " enthusiasm".