Dev Saab & the city

Dev Anand’s was a life given to the films — in his last days, by his own account, he was in the throes of planning his next production. The expanse of his career is breathtaking, and to take stock of it is to tread the history of Indian cinema. To hear about it in his memoirs, he arrived in Bombay in the 1940s with stars in his eyes and a self-belief that is mind-boggling. By 1946 he had made his debut, in another two years he had his first hit, and soon he had set up his own production house, Navketan.

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