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Romancing with Life : An Autobiography Dev Anand. New Delhi, Penguin, 2007, x, 438 pages, photographs, ISBN 067008124-8.
"Dev Anand is something of a Bollywood institution. His romantic
persona, dialogue delivery, song picturizations and mannerisms are
legend, and for generations of filmgoers he has remained Hindi cinema's
most charismatic personality.
In Romancing with Life, the first-ever full-fledged memoir by a
leading Bollywood star, he tells his remarkable life story--no less
dramatic and gripping than any of his films--like only he can. Here are
tales from Dev's youth in 1930s Gurdaspur and Lahore; his years of
struggle in 1940s Bombay; his friendship with Guru Dutt and his doomed
romance with Suraiya; his marriage to co-star Kalpana Kartik; his
relationships with his brothers Chetan--who brought him to Bombay--and
Vijay Anand--who directed him in hit after hit--with S.D. and R.D.
Burman, who provided the memorable music for his films, with his
compatriots Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, to both of whom he was very
close, and with his heroines, from Geeta Bali, Madhubala, Meena Kumari,
Nutan, Vyjayanthimala, Mumtaz and Hema Malini to Waheeda Rehman, Zeenat
Aman and Tina Munim, all of whom he launched.
Dev Anand has produced an unputdownable book chock-full of
bittersweet reminiscences, written in a pacy, effervescent style that
carries the reader through sixty of Bollywood's most interesting years.
With rare pictures from his personal archive, Romancing with Life is
the quintessential Dev Anand." (jacket) |
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