BOLLYWOOD ACTOR- DEV ANAND.

Dev Anand  (1923-2011)

Real Name: Pishaurimal Dev Swaroop Anand.

Best Film.   Guide.with Waheeda Rehman released in 1965.

He Married in 1954 with Mona Singh (Kalpana Kartik).   They secretly got married on the sets of Taxi Driver.

Children. Suneel and Deveena.

Awards. 1958 Best Actor FilmFare. Film Kaala Paani.

1966Best Film Guide featuring him with Waheeda Rehman.

Padma Bhushana in 2001.

Dada Saheb Phalke award in 2002.

NDTV Life Time Award in September 2011.

 

He died in London on 3 December 2011.

 

Dev Anand (1923-2011)                                                                                                                                                               Real Name: Pishourimal Dev Anand.                                                                                                                                                                                          Best Film: Guide with Waheeda Rehman in 1965.                                                                                                             Married in 1954 to Mona Singh Screen name Kalpana Kartik.                                                                                  They got married secretly while on a break during the shooting of the film Taxi Driver.                    Children: Suneel and Daveena.                                                                                                                                       Filmfare  Awards.  1958. Best Actor. Kaala Paani. 1966 Best Film Guide.  1991 Life Time Award.     Padma Bhushan in 2001. NDTV Life Time Award 2011 September.                                                                                                                                     Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 2002. Died in London on 3 December 2011.

 

 

 Indian actor, producer and film-maker Dev Anand, who has died aged 88, was the first and longest serving matinee idol of Bollywoodcinema. The pinnacle of his career came with Guide (1965), a film based on RK Narayan's novel, in which Dev played the male lead opposite the classical Indian dancer turned actor Waheeda Rehman. Dev's talented younger brother Vijay directed it. During the golden age of Indian cinema, in the 1950s and 1960s, Dev, along with Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, formed the trio of stars who dominated the silver screen. Dev's urbanity and quirky mannerisms made him especially popular among the young and women.

He was born in undivided India at Gurdaspur, in the Punjab region. His father, Pishorimal Anand, was a leading lawyer. After graduating from the prestigious Government College, in Lahore, Dev tried and failed to enter the Royal Indian Navy. He finally decided to follow his older brother Chetan's footsteps to join Bombay's film world.

Chetan was the eldest of the three Anand brothers and had established himself as an avant-garde film-maker with his debut film Neecha Nagar (Lowly City), one of the first Indian films to gain international recognition – it shared the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the first Cannes film festival in 1946.

Chetan helped Dev to join the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association where he met many leading figures active in theatre and films. Dev was soon offered the lead role in the Prabhat film company's Hum Ek Hain (We Are One, 1946) directed by PL Santoshi. But the film that made him a star came two years later from the famous Bombay Talkies studio. This was Shahid Lateef's Ziddi (Stubborn, 1948). Kishore Kumar was introduced as a playback singer in this film for Dev, who became his romantic voice for many later films.

In 1949 Dev and Chetan formed their own Navketan Films. Their first production, Afsar (1950), based on Nikolai Gogol's novel The Government Inspector, with Dev and the singing star Suraiya in the lead roles, and directed by Chetan, sank without a trace. But soon the company was placed on a firm footing with the blockbuster crime thriller Baazi (The Wager, 1951).

In the 1950s and 1960s Navketan's Taxi Driver (1954), Nau Do Gyarah (Nine Plus Two Makes Eleven, 1957), Kalapani (Life Sentence, 1958), Kala Bazaar (Black Market, 1960) and Tere Ghar Ke Samne (In Front of Your House, 1963) kept Dev at the forefront of Indian cinema. The high watermark of his career as a film star came with Guide, Jewel Thief (1967), Johny Mera Nam (My Name is Johny, 1970) and Tere Mere Sapne (Our Dreams, 1971), all directed by Vijay.

Dev turned to directing with Prem Pujari (The Worshipper of Love, 1970), a film about the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965. As a film-maker, his greatest successes came with Haré Raama Haré Krishna (Praise Rama, Praise Krishna, 1971), which dealt with the problem of drugs among the young; and Des Pardes (At Home and Abroad, 1978), about illegal immigration in the UK.

Dev also had the distinction of introducing many talents and fresh faces to popular Indian cinema, such as Kalpana Kartik, Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim.

Dev was a true democrat, which w

 

Mona Singha, aka Kalpana Kartik was a student of the prestigious St Bedes college in Shimla. In her graduation year, she participated in the Ms Shimla contest, and as luck would have it she bagged the trophy and also the attention of a struggling film-maker from Bombay . The director was an erudite man and he managed to convince her otherwise elitist family to allow her to accept his offer of joining his fledgling film company as a leading lady. Thus, Mona Singha was re-christened Kalpana Kartik and she moved to Bombay (now known as Mumbai). Film history tells us Kalpana Kartik was the wrong person, in the right place at the right time. It was Chetan Anand who brought her to Bombay to join his film company Navketan Films, that he ran along with Dev Anand, his younger brother. Her first film Baaziwas a huge success and went on to become a landmark in Indian cinema. Baazi was a gamble that defined the destinies of many luminaries all of whom got a career boost from the film. All this was about the 'right place' and 'right time' part of it ^[2].

Kalpana Kartik, became a part of Navketan when it was beginning to spread it's wings. She was associated with the film company during it's most momentous years. She started with Baazi, the debut of Guru Dutt and ended with Nau Do Gyarah, the debut film of Vijay Anand. Between these two films came Taxi Driver, which was the 'coming of age' film of the Navketan banner. It was Navketan's first super-success and also the film on whose sets Dev Anand secretly married Kartik during a lunch break ^[3]. Kalpana's time in Navketan saw four different directors take reign - Guru Dutt, Chetan Anand, Mandi Burman and Vijay Anand.

Kalpana worked as an Associate Producer for Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963), Jewel Thief (1967), Prem Pujari (1970), Shareef Budmaash (1973), Heera Panna (1973), and Jaaneman (1976). Dev Anand played the lead role in these movies ^[4].

[edit]Personal life

In 1954, Mona and Dev Anand got married secretly while on a break during the shooting of Taxi Driver ^[5]. They became parents in 1956 when Suneil Anand was born. They also have a daughter named Devina. After Nau Do Gyarah, Kalpana quit films to become a home maker. Suneil has also acted in films^]