As a five-year-old, it was impossible to understand it. It’s a life-changing decision, which he felt that he needed to take at the time. Sanyaas means giving up your life in totality - family is a part of it. The actor talked about his father and how him leaving his family for Osho affected them in an interview to Mid-Day.Īkshaye Khanna said, "(The influence) to not only leave his family, but to take ‘sanyaas’ (renunciation). Vinod Khanna, Bollywood Star and Osho Sannyasin, dies at 70. In an old interview with Times of India, Vinod Khanna spoke candidly about how he time spent at Osho's Rajneeshuram in the United States Of America and said, 'I was Osho's mali: I am one of the few Indians to have stayed with Osho in Rajneeshpuram, the city he built in America. Before the loss of his seat, he had risen to be a minister in the central government.
In the recently concluded parliament elections, he convincingly won his seat, after having lost in the last election. When he turned 15 or 16, he realised who was Osho. During the years since Osho’s death, Vinod Khanna became a prominent politician. Akshaye was just a toddler back then and didn't understand why his father left them. Could you please share with me anything, and I mean ANYTHING: photos, links to articles, gossip, books, interviews. In 1975, Vinod Khanna left his family comprising a wife and two kids, Akshaye and Rahul, and moved to Oregon. While international celebrities like Beatles joined the movement, Indian stars like Parveen Babi, Mahesh Bhatt and Vinod Khanna also followed the cult and became Osho's disciples. Vinod Khanna wasnt the only celeb who became a disciple of Osho, famous Bollywood names like Mahesh Bhatt, Parvin Babi were also influenced by the spiritual leader back then.
Akshaye Khanna and his mother too were present at the press conference for the announcement. In the early 70s, many celebrities from all over the world got associated with Osho and joined the controversial Rajneesh Movement. Vinod Khanna had announced in 1982, when he was at the peak of his career, that he was quitting films to join Osho as his disciple.