Dilip Kumar’s Unfulfilled wish: Know what was his last wish that remained entangled between the Pakistan gov and the current owners

Dilip Kumar's ancestral haveli was declared as a national heritage by the Government of Pakistan in 2014. Similarly, Raj Kapoor's haveli was declared the same in 2018. Both the havelis are in the residential area of Peshawar city, Kissa Khwani Bazar. The process of formal conservation of ancestral havelis is going on.

It was initiated by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Government, so that a museum could be built in place of Haveli. The existing owners were given time till May 18 for this work. But unfortunately, Dilip Sahab left the world before the mansion could be refurnished. Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar lived their early part of their lives in these buildings before the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.

The current owners unhappy with the prices

Earlier, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had planned to buy Raj Kapoor's 6.25-marla and Dilip Kumar's 4-marla houses for Rs 1.50 crore and Rs 80 lakh respectively and convert them into museums. The motive behind this is to show what is Peshawar's contribution to the world and Bollywood.

Ali Qadir, the owner of Raj Kapoor's mansion, had demanded 20 crores for the mansion. At the same time, Gul Rehman Mohammad, the owner of Dilip Kumar's mansion, had said that the government should buy it at the market rate i.e. around Rs 3.50 crore.The reports said that both the owners of mansions were unhappy with the prices that pak gov decided.

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6 months waiting for the marriage party in the Kapoor mansion

It is said about the Raj Kapoor mansion that before the partition of 1947, it was the first choice of people to give a wedding party. Due to the unavailability of booking in the mansion, the dates had to be extended by at-least 6 months. But the mansion was damaged by the 2005 earthquake and this activity stopped. Its condition worsened after the earthquake. In 2014, the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared these houses a national heritage, but no one had even reached a peephole to preserve it.

Dilip Kumar's Ancestral Haveli Near Kapoor’s Mansion

Dilip Kumar's Ancestral Haveli is also near Kapoor’s Mansion. It is about 100 years old. The owners of both the havelis tried to demolish them several times to make them commercial plazas, but the government did not approve it. The top and fourth floor of the 100-year-old magnificent five-story Haveli with 40 to 50 rooms has collapsed. The rest of the building is also in dilapidated condition. The CM of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has allotted about Rs 2.35 crore 4 months ago.