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- Chetan Anand directed Dev Anand in the first four Navketan films, beginning with Afsar in 1946, which was based on The Inspector General by the Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol.
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Navketan Films is a film production house based in Mumbai, India. Started in 1949 by actor-director and producer Dev Anand and his elder brother Chetan Anand, whose debut film, Neecha Nagar, received the Palme d'Or (Best Film) award, at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946.
Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, film producer, film director and screenwriter known for his work in Hindi cinema. Anand is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. [ 1 ]
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Early life
Anand was born on 3 January 1921 in Lahore, British India, to a well-to-do advocate, Pishori Lal Anand. He went to Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya to study Hindu scriptures and graduated in English from Government College Lahore. He remained a member of Indian National Congress in the 1930s, subsequently worked for the BBC and taught at the Doon School in Dehradun for a while, before going to Bombayto sell a film script.
Career
In the early 1940s, while he was teaching history, he wrote a film script on king Ashoka, which he showed to the director Phani Majumdar in Bombay. Anand failed to qualify for the Indian Civil Service (ICS) exams in London. As luck would have it, Majumdar cast him as a lead in his Hindi film, Rajkumar, released in 1944. He also became associated with the Indian People's Theatre Association(IPTA) in Bombay. He soon took to film direction with the well-acclaimed movie Neecha Nagar which won the...
Personal life
In 1943, Chetan Anand married Uma Chatterji, a Bengali Christian woman of Brahmin heritage. Her father, Gyanesh Chandra Chatterji, was the principal of Government Law College, Lahore, and he was the son of Rev. Probhat Chandra Chatterji, a Christian priest. Her mother, Ila Chatterji, was a first cousin of Mona Singha, better known as Kalpana Kartik, wife of Chetan's younger brother Dev Anand. Kalpana Kartik's father and Uma's maternal grandmother were brother and sister. Also, Uma was a siste...
Chetan Anand: The Poetics of Film, a book written by his wife Uma Anand and son Ketan Anand (Himalaya Films Media Entertainment), was released in 2006.A documentary by the same name made by Ketan Anand was released in 2008. A retrospective of his films was held at the Stuttgart Film Festival and at the India International Centre, New Delhiin 2007.
Director
Films 1. Neecha Nagar(1946) 2. Afsar(1950) 3. Aandhiyan(1952) 4. Taxi Driver(1954) 5. Funtoosh(1956) 6. Arpan(1957) 7. Kinare Kinare(1963) 8. Haqeeqat(1964) 9. Aakhri Khat(1966) 10. Heer Raanjha(1970) 11. Hanste Zakhm(1973) 12. Hindustan Ki Kasam(1973) 13. Jaaneman(1976) 14. Saheb Bahadur(1977) 15. Kudrat(1981) 16. Haathon Ki Lakeeren(1986) TV series 1. Param Veer Chakra(1988)
Producer
1. Saheb Bahadur(1977) 2. Haathon Ki Lakeeren(1986)
Actor
1. Kala Bazar(1960) 2. Arpan(1957) 3. Kinare Kinare(1963)
1946: Palme d'Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival: Neecha Nagar1965: National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film: Haqeeqat1982: Filmfare Best Story Award: KudratChetan Anand at IMDb3 days ago · chetan Anand directed Dev in the first four Navketan films, starting with Afsar in 1946, which was inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s play The Inspector General. dev anand starred in many memorable films, including Jewel Thief, a gripping crime drama, and Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971), which earned him acclaim for its depiction of hippie culture ...
Sep 26, 2023 · Chetan Anand, Dev Anand and Vijay Anand were the pillars of Navketan Films but the company was started by the older siblings – Chetan and Dev. Chetan, who was a teacher at Doon School and had a worldly approach to movies, had already made the 1946 film Neecha Nagar by then.
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Dec 3, 2011 · Dharam Dev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian film actor, writer, director, and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. Part of the Anand family, he co-founded Navketan Films in 1949 with his elder brother Chetan Anand.
Jul 25, 2016 · Sidharth Bhatia. In 2007, writer Sidharth Bhatia was contemplating a book on Indian cinema and was keen on bringing to light a production company that was about to complete six decades of...
