Dev Anand Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Children, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Dharam Devdutt Pishorimal Anand
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Wednesday
BIRTHPLACE
Shakargarh, Punjab, British India
DIED AT AGE
88 Years 2 Months 7 Days
DEATHDATE
December 3, 2011
DEATHPLACE
London, England, United Kingdom
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
LIBRA
ALSO NOTED FOR
Producer, Director
Physical Stats
CHEST
38 ''
BICEPS
12 ''
WAIST
32 ''
HEIGHT
5'9''(feet & inches)
1.7526 meters
175.26 cm
WEIGHT
55 kg
121 lbs
Dev Anand Family Members
BROTHER(S) NAME
Vijay Anand
Chetan Anand
SISTER(S) NAME
Dev Anand Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Kalpana Kartik (-)
Child(ren) of Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik
Suneil (30 June, 1956) (Son) (Actor)
Fame & Address
SIGNATURE
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Kala Pani ( Film 1959), Guide ( Film 1967)
Education, Net Worth & More
COLLEGE
Government College, Lahore,British India
NET WORTH
$50 Million
DEV ANAND PICTURE
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About Dev Anand
The very handsome and talented actor "Dev Anand" who gave near sixty-five years of his life to Indian Cinema. He was also called Dev Saab. He is known for the film like Kala Pani, Paying Guest, Guide.
Career of Dev Anand
He started his career with the film Ziddi. He worked in films like Baazi, Munimji, Funtoosh, C.I.D. and Paying Guest. His films Guide, Jewelthief are remembered even today. As a director, he directed films like "Hare Rame Hare Krishna".
Some Lesser Known Facts About Dev Anand
- Did Dev Anand takes alcohol? No.
- Was Dev Anand in the habit of Smoking? No.
- He worked as a clerk in an accountancy firm for Rs 85 to survive when he was struggling to become an actor.
- He wanted to join Royal Indian Navy of the British Armed Forces but he was rejected that's why he joined Military Censor Office and earned Rs. 160 before starting an acting career.
- He was inspired by Ashok Kumar's acting in the film "Achut Kanya", in fact, he was his acting idol and also he was the person to give Dev first break in the movie called "Ziddi".
- He falls in love with the actress Suraiya when they were filming for Vidya. He also saved her life like a real hero when the boat overturned while they were shooting for the song "Kinare kinare chale jaayenge" on a boat. He proposed her for the marriage with a diamond ring worth Rs 3,000 on the set of film Jeet. But it does not happen as Suraiya's maternal grandmother was against their marriage as they do not belong to the same religion. Suraiya never married in her life.
- He had turned down many movies including Junglee, Teesri Manzil, and Zanjeer. Two of the films landed to Shammi Kapoor while Amitabh Bachchan did the movie Zanjeer. All the three films were blockbusters.
- He was banned from wearing black suits in the public. As his female fans used to go crazy seeing him in a black suit. His popularity among the girl fans rose at the level where many girls wrote letters to him with blood and while watching him black suit from the roof some girls fell off the building.
- He was a huge fan of Charlie Chaplin and got a chance to meet him in Montreux, Switzerland. When Charlie was expelled from America with an allegation of some un-American activities. Dev was so excited to meet him and said "Hail Chaplin" with this Charlie laughed and said, "Welcome to my white house!"
- He and Guru Dutt have a very good relationship. They had decided that Dev Anand should do all the lead role in Guru Dutt's movie and Guru Dutt will direct all the movies produced by Dev Anand.
- He was very particular about the actor he wanted to choose for the character in his movies. He decided that Mumtaz will perform a role in the film "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" but the actress had already signed seven films. At that time any actor was not allowed to sign more than seven films a year. But violating the rules he took Mumtaz to Nepal under Police Protection and shot for the film.
- This is strange but true a family found their missing daughter in the film "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" when he saw her in a song of the film he contacted the makers and met her.
- He is liked by people not only in India but also in Hollywood. He worked in a Hollywood movie "The Evil Within".
- "Guide" was the only movie in his whole acting career in which his character died at the end of the film.
- He also had interest in politics. He protested against the Internal Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. He campaigned against her in 1977 election. He had also formed a political party called "National Party of India" but dissolve the party after a few years.
- He never worked in any commercial in his whole acting career.
- He was a regular customer of Frederick Hotel in Mahabaleshwar and room number 11 was always reserved for him whether he is in the town or not. He used to stay in that room whenever he visits the town.
- He had a great passion for collecting jackets and had more than 800 jackets in his collection.
- He had worked in only one film which had multi lead actor.
- His popular checkered print cap which he had worn in the film Jewel Thief was purchased from a shop in Copenhagen, Denmark. He bought the cap when he was shooting the film "Pyar Mohabbat" with Saira Bano.
- He had worked with almost every leading actor in Bollywood that is from Dilip Kumar and Ashok Kumar to Mithun Chakraborty and Aamir Khan, except Amitabh Bachchan.
- Many actresses were offered for the role of his sister in the film "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" but all of them refused the role as they do not want to work as his sister. Mumtaj was also one of those actresses. Finally, Zeenat Aman agreed to do the role and the film got Superhit.
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