Akshaye with his mother at father Vinod Khanna’s funeral in 2017

MUMBAI MIRROR (December 17, 2018)

Late Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna’s first wife Geetanjali died at the family’s farmhouse in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, police said on Sunday. She was 70.

Geetanjali and her actor son Akshaye Khanna (pictured above) were visiting the farmhouse located at Mandva over the weekend. She complained of uneasiness at the farmhouse on Saturday evening following which she was taken to a hospital in Chondi village, Mandva police station in-charge, assistant police inspector Meghna Burande said.

After treatment at the hospital, Geetanjali and Akshaye returned to the farmhouse where the actor took her to the bedroom and asked her to take rest, she said.

Akshaye later went out of the farmhouse for some time. When he returned, he enquired with a care-taker about his mother and then went to her bedroom where he found her unconscious, the official said. He then called the doctors again at the local hospital and also his actor-brother Rahul Khanna (right) in Mumbai. On doctor’s advice, he took his mother to the Alibaug-based civil hospital where she was declared dead, Burande said.

After the postmortem at the civil hospital on Sunday morning, the body was handed over to the family, she said. “It appeared to be a natural death, but doctors have preserved the viscera to ascertain the exact cause of demise,” the official said.

“We recorded Rahul Khanna’s statement and have not found anything suspicious,” she said, adding that the last rites of the deceased were performed by the family members at Alibaug on Sunday afternoon.