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Sunday, September 26th, 2010 by admin
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Bollywood – Evergreen Dev Anand celebrates 87th b’day

Living legend actor Dharam Dev Anand popularly known as Dev Anand will mark his 87th birthday on Sunday. Dev Ānand born on 26 September 1923 is an Indian Bollywood actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Bollywood. His elder brother Chetan Anand was a film director, ...

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Friday, July 9th, 2010 by admin
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Dev Anand on Suraiya

Off and on, I’ve fallen in and out of love. After all, I’m a human being, not a god or a sanyasi. But when you’re seriously in love,you propose to the girl and tell her, `I can’t live without you.’ That happened only once in my life — with Suraiya. It was my first and ...

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Monday, May 17th, 2010 by admin
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C.I.D. (1956)

This is one of Hindi cinema’s few experiments with film noir. It engages with the genre fully, down to its rainy night street scenes and relentless emphasis on icons of modernity, such as telephones, cars, guns, newspapers and houses with sliding panels, trapdoors, etc. Inder Raj Anand took elements of film noir and mixed them ...

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Friday, April 30th, 2010 by admin
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Bambai Ka Babu (1960)

Cast: Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen Director: Raj Khosla Music: S.D. Burman Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Capsule Review: Bambai Ka Babu tells the dark and forbidden story of a criminal (Dev Anand) who seeks shelter in the home of a man he murders and falls in love with the murdered man’s sister. Though mawkish in parts, Bambai ...

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Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Guide (1966)

Cast: Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Anwar Husain, Kishore Sahu Director: Vijay Anand Music: S.D. Burman Lyrics: Shailendra Capsule Review: Vijay Anand smoothly recreates R.K. Narayan’s complex and layered novel, and mixes existentialism with the song-and-dance formula. Waheeda Rehman comes to life as the capricious, defiant and enchanting Rosy, and Dev Anand is every ...

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Saturday, November 28th, 2009 by admin
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Afsar (1950)

Synopsis The journalist Kapur (Dev Anand) comes to a village run by corrupt politicians led by the village tehsildar (Kanhaiyalal). They mistake him for a government inspector and treat him like a VIP. The expose of rural politics is intercut with a love story between Kapur and the tehsildar’s sister Bimala (Suraiya). Review Afsar, Navketan’s ...

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Dev Anand

Along with Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand completes the trio of the top male stars from the 1950s and 1960s who established the dominant acting style of post-Independence Hindi cinema. Born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, as Devdutt Pishorimal Anand to a well-off family (his father was a lawyer) Anand received a BA. with honors ...

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Saturday, November 21st, 2009 by admin
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Taxi Driver (1954)

Synopsis Dev Anand’s best-known ‘proletarian’ performance as a taxi driver in a story inspired by film noir. Mangal (DevAnand) rescues Mala (Kalpana Kartik) from some hoodlums. This act of chivalry leads to a series of encounters with a violent criminal gang who, later in the film, steal Mangal’s cab to commit a bank robbery. Mala, ...

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Friday, November 13th, 2009 by admin
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Suraiya and her infamous Granny

This rare family pic shows Suraiya’s infamous granny who played a major role in ending the love affair of Suraiya with Dev Anand. According to Dev Anand in his book Romancing with Life – an autobiography, he mentioned “Suraiya’s grandmother’s open resentment came to the fore one day, on the sets of Afsar. She started ...

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