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11 things you didn't knew about Dev Anand
1. Dev Anand's birth name is Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand.
2. One of his earliest and nearest buddies in Bollywood was actor-director Guru Dutt. They struck an informal agreement amongst themselves that if Dev Anand produced a film, Guru Dutt would direct it and if Guru Dutt produced a film, Dev Anand would act in it. Together they teamed for several hits like Baazi, Jaal and CID.
3. Dev Anand, along with Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor formed the top 3 league in the film industry analogous to the SRK-Salman-Aamir trio of together. Much against popular notion of rivalry between these 3, Dev Anand costarred with Dilip Kumar in S S Vasan's Insaniyat and shared great bonding with Raj Kapoor.
4. The story of Sunil Dutt saving Nargis from a fire and subsequently falling in love and getting married is popular. In a very similar episode, Dev Anand saved popular singer-actress Suraiya from drowning when their boat overturned. In true Bollywood style, the two fell in love and wanted to get married but couldn't as Suraiya's grandmother strongly disapproved of their relationship. Suraiya remained unmarried all her life.
5. Dev Anand got married in Russia to costar Kalpana Kartik where they were on a tour to screen their films Aandhiyan and Rahee. Kalpana Kartik whose real name was Mona worked as an actress only in 5 films and all of them costarred Dev Anand opposite her.
6. His first coloured film was Guide (1965) which, till date, is considered amongst his best works. The film was a cinematic adaptation of a novel of the same name by R K Narayan and Dev Anand was instrumental in getting assent from the famous writer for making the film. He co-produced the English version of Guide with the Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck (of The Good Earth fame) which was simultaneously shot and released for the international audience, though it didn't get as amazing response as the Hindi version.
7. Not many know that he is the maternal uncle (mama) of famous filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Mr India, Bandit Queen, Elizabeth). Shekhar Kapur is the son of Sheel Kanta Kapur, real sister of Dev Anand. Sheel was the mother-in-law of actors Naveen Nischol and Parikshit Sahni.
8. Dev Anand has introduced a multitude of talent to the Indian Film Industry. The most prominent amongst them include the sensuous actress Zeenat Aman (whom he introduced in Hare Rama Hare Krishna) and Tina Munim (in Des Pardes). But not many know that Jackie Shroff debuted as a junior artist in Dev Anand's 1982 film Swami Dada.
9. Dev Anand was amongst the few who stood up against the authoritarian regime imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Internal Emergency.
10. Dev Anand shares his birthday (September 26) with the present Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh. Incidentally Dev Anand's last film was titled Mr. Prime Minister. Last year he had Manmohan Singh release his autobiography Romancing with Life on his birthday.
11. Dev Anand has won 4 Filmfare trophies, the Lifetime Achievement Award in almost every award ceremony in the country and most importantly the Padma Bhushan by the President of India for the outstanding work in his discipline.
1. Dev Anand's birth name is Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand.
2. One of his earliest and nearest buddies in Bollywood was actor-director Guru Dutt. They struck an informal agreement amongst themselves that if Dev Anand produced a film, Guru Dutt would direct it and if Guru Dutt produced a film, Dev Anand would act in it. Together they teamed for several hits like Baazi, Jaal and CID.
3. Dev Anand, along with Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor formed the top 3 league in the film industry analogous to the SRK-Salman-Aamir trio of together. Much against popular notion of rivalry between these 3, Dev Anand costarred with Dilip Kumar in S S Vasan's Insaniyat and shared great bonding with Raj Kapoor.
4. The story of Sunil Dutt saving Nargis from a fire and subsequently falling in love and getting married is popular. In a very similar episode, Dev Anand saved popular singer-actress Suraiya from drowning when their boat overturned. In true Bollywood style, the two fell in love and wanted to get married but couldn't as Suraiya's grandmother strongly disapproved of their relationship. Suraiya remained unmarried all her life.
5. Dev Anand got married in Russia to costar Kalpana Kartik where they were on a tour to screen their films Aandhiyan and Rahee. Kalpana Kartik whose real name was Mona worked as an actress only in 5 films and all of them costarred Dev Anand opposite her.
6. His first coloured film was Guide (1965) which, till date, is considered amongst his best works. The film was a cinematic adaptation of a novel of the same name by R K Narayan and Dev Anand was instrumental in getting assent from the famous writer for making the film. He co-produced the English version of Guide with the Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck (of The Good Earth fame) which was simultaneously shot and released for the international audience, though it didn't get as amazing response as the Hindi version.
7. Not many know that he is the maternal uncle (mama) of famous filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Mr India, Bandit Queen, Elizabeth). Shekhar Kapur is the son of Sheel Kanta Kapur, real sister of Dev Anand. Sheel was the mother-in-law of actors Naveen Nischol and Parikshit Sahni.
8. Dev Anand has introduced a multitude of talent to the Indian Film Industry. The most prominent amongst them include the sensuous actress Zeenat Aman (whom he introduced in Hare Rama Hare Krishna) and Tina Munim (in Des Pardes). But not many know that Jackie Shroff debuted as a junior artist in Dev Anand's 1982 film Swami Dada.
9. Dev Anand was amongst the few who stood up against the authoritarian regime imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Internal Emergency.
10. Dev Anand shares his birthday (September 26) with the present Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh. Incidentally Dev Anand's last film was titled Mr. Prime Minister. Last year he had Manmohan Singh release his autobiography Romancing with Life on his birthday.
11. Dev Anand has won 4 Filmfare trophies, the Lifetime Achievement Award in almost every award ceremony in the country and most importantly the Padma Bhushan by the President of India for the outstanding work in his discipline.
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