Dev Anand

Dev Anand Biography, Relationship & Career

Shortly after completion of his research, he relocated to Bombay and started working in a military censor’s office. Simultaneously, he also joined his elder brother Chetan Anand in Indian People’s Theatre Association.

He had been offered a part in the famed movie Hum Dono at the year 1946 where he was paired opposite veteran celebrity Suriya in the year 1946. Their pairing became hit one of the people and they then starred in seven more movies like Do Sitare, Jeet, Sangam and Vidya among others. They began dating each other too but because of family differences, they could not marry and stopped working with each other too. The first big film he obtained was offered to him by Ashok Kumar who signed him for a Bombay Talkie movie titled Baazi from the year 1948. The film was a massive hit and Dev Anand became highly popular with the audiences. Following this film, he also established his own production house named Navketan and beneath his production house, he made around 35 movies till his death in 2011. He signed up the legendary director and actor Guru Dutt to direct his movie Baazi. He was the producer of the movie and played the lead character. He was paired Kalpana Karthik in this movie. This film was a massive hit and he had been offered different movies opposite Kalpana then. Finally, the couple fell in love on the collections of Taxi Driver.

He’ll forever be remembered for his style of nodding his head when speaking. This fashion of his became highly popular among his fans. In the decade of the 1960s, he established himself as the very sought-after romantic hero and has been paired with all leading actresses of the time such as Mala Sinha, Nutan, Asha Parekh, and Meena Kumari among others. Some of his movies which require a particular mention are Hum Dono, Guide, C.I.D., Hare Rama Hare Krishna and Tere Ghar Ke Saamne among others. He had an illustrious career both as an actor and as a producer and combined with various Best Actor awards, he was felicitated by the Government of India with Padma Bhushan and the Dada Saheb Phalke Award in the year 2001 and 2002 respectively.

Together the couple is blessed with a boy called Suniel Anand and a daughter called Devina Anand.