![]() With rare pictures from his personal archive, “Romancing with Life” is the quintessential Dev Anand. 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. Burman, 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. Have you ever been to Copenhagen' he said. ![]() I don't make them for outsiders,' I repeated. 'Mr Harwani, I make films only for myself. He was dressed in a suit and was well spoken, but timid, the expression in his eyes hidden behind the thick spectacles he wore all the time. He was extremely respectful, and I was polite in return. 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 and Vijay Anand, with S.D. 304 DEV ANAND ROMANCING WITH LIFE 305 which I later discovered he always carried. Romancing With Life – Dev Anand | In “Romancing with Life”, the first-ever full-fledged memoir by a leading Bollywood star, Dev Anand tells his remarkable life story like only he can.
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