RAILWAY
( CONTRACTORS )
Born on 29 December 1942, in in Amritsar in the state of Punjab, as Jatin Khanna,Khanna was adopted and raised by foster parents – Chunni Lal Khanna and Leela Wati Khanna,who were relatives of his biological parents after his father had migrated from pre-partitioned Pakistan to Gali Tiwarian in the city of Amritsar. His biological parents were Lala Hiranand and Chandrani Khanna and Lala worked as headmaster of the MC High School in Burewala (in present day Pakistan), Vehari District, Punjab, Pakistan. His adopted parents belonged to a family of railway contractors who had moved from Lahore to Bombay in 1935.Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas in Thakurdwar near Girgaon, Mumbai and attended St. Sebastian’s Goan High School there, along with his friend Ravi Kapoor, who later took the stage name Jeetendra, and whose mothers were friends.