Vinod Khanna’s first wife Geetanjali dies

Mumbai, December 16

Late Bollywood actor and former Gurdaspur BJP MP Vinod Khanna’s first wife Geetanjali died at the family’s farmhouse in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. She was 70.

Geetanjali and her actor son Akshaye Khanna were visiting the farmhouse located at Mandva over the weekend.

She complained of uneasiness on Saturday evening following which she was taken to a hospital in Chondi village, Mandva police station incharge, Assistant Inspector Meghna Burande said.

After treatment, Geetanjali and her son returned to the farmhouse, she said. Akshaye later went out of the farmhouse. When he returned, he enquired with a caretaker about his mother and then went to her bedroom where he found her unconscious, the official said.

He then called doctors again. On their advice, he took his mother to the Alibaug-based civil hospital where she was declared dead.

“It appeared to be a natural death, but doctors have preserved the viscera to ascertain the exact cause of demise,” the official said.

The last rites were performed at Alibaug on Sunday.

Vinod Khanna died in April last year. He had divorced Geetanjali in 1985. — PTI