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The Pakistani government has decided to soon convert the museum from the ancestral home of Bollywood star Rishi Kapoor to Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshawar, in response to a request from the actor.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Pakistani government will turn the house from actor to museum.
"There was a call from Rishi Kapoor and he asked that his family's house in Peshawar be a museum or some kind of institution, and we accepted his request," he told a group. Indian journalists visiting.
Pakistan's interior minister, Shehryar Khan Afridi, said Kapoor had telephoned him to preserve his family's house in Peshawar and that "we are responding positively to his request."
"He phoned me to talk about the transformation of his ancestral home into a museum, now the federal and provincial governments are working on it and will soon turn the house into a museum," said Afridi.
The Kapoor Haveli of Qissa Khwani Bazar was built by Basheswarnath Kapoor, father of Bollywood icon, Prithviraj Kapoor.
Raj Kapoor, son of Prithviraj Kapoor, was born in Peshawar on December 14, 1924. The actor-director is best known for a series of blockbuster films that he made in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Kapoor family left Peshawar after the partition in 1947.
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