She reached the peak in 2012 with Ek Tha Tiger and Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
The killer seemed to lose his steady aim with his next targets in Syed Jaan's household nearby.
Umrao Jaan 2006 has bombed at the box office - critics panned it for being a big yawn.
"Whenever I go to the hospital and see her, I remember that time and her request, " Mr. Jaan says.
Mr. Jaan was away, on a trip to Kandahar city, when his wife, brother, brother-in-law and three-year-old nephew were killed.
Zardana had asked Mr. Jaan, 50, to bring back new clothes on a recent trip to the city, something he couldn't afford.
The new, glossy Umrao Jaan is a retread of the critically acclaimed 1981 commercial hit about a 19th century north Indian courtesan.
Doc Cheng's units are in Raffles hotels in Bangkok and Hamburg, while Jaan's have opened in Raffles in London, Beverly Hills and Montreux, Switzerland.
"The name is park, the government is happy to call it a park, but it's not a park yet, " said Band-e-Amir resident Jaan Been.
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The same cannot be said of two other releases, Jai Santoshi Maa, and the much anticipated Umrao Jaan, starring top stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan.
Mr. Jaan's 6-year-old niece Zardana, shot in the head, was still lying unconscious in a Kandahar hospital earlier this week, and wasn't expected to survive, he said.
One example: The Raffles hotel chain has created two restaurant brands, Doc Cheng's and Jaan's, based on the Singapore-based originals and their fusion of Western and Asian cuisine.
At the end of the day, we had released "Umrao Jaan" in November, in which they said there was zero chemistry and it's a disaster to see them together.
Lord Rees, along with Cambridge philosopher Huw Price and economist Sir Partha Dasgupta and Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, wants the proposed Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to evaluate such threats.
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