Vinod Khanna’s journey had a spiritual twist — Here’s what you didn’t know

At the height of his career in the early 1980s — when he was a top-billed actor alongside Amitabh Bachchan — Vinod Khanna shocked the industry by quitting films to join Osho Rajneesh’s ashram in the U.S. He worked as a gardener and cleaner, renounced worldly pleasures, and was even renamed Swami Vinod Bharti. For five years, he lived away from the spotlight in spiritual retreat.