Rishi Kapoor's ancestral house in Pakistan will now be a MUSEUM

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Published: Friday,Nov 30, 2018 21:29 PM GMT-07:00

Kriti Sharma

As we all know that the Kapoors lived in Peshawar, Pakistan before the partition of India happened. Raj Kapoor's father PrithviRaj Kapoor was born in Peshawar and had his ancestral property there. Currently in Qissa Bazar, Peshawar, the Kapoor Haveli stands tall after all these years. Now as per the reports of PTI, Rishi Kapoor has requested the Pakistan government to turn it into a museum.

Pakistan's foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a group of Indian journalists ,"There was a call from Rishi Kapoor. He requested that his family's home in Peshawar should be made into a museum or some sort of institution. We have accepted his request."

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Pakistan's state of interior minister Shehryar Khan Afridi said that they received a call from the actor and now they are thinking upon it positively. According to PTI, he said,"He had called me and talked about making his ancestral home into a museum. Now the federal and provincial governments are working on this and will transform the house into a museum soon,"

The Kapoor haveli was built by Basheswarnath Kapoor who was Raj Kapoor's grandfather. NOw their haveli will be a museum and their ancestral house will be preserved, all thanks to the Pakistani government.