From 'Baazi' in 1951 to 'Chargesheet' in 2011, it was an untrammeled joyride through six decades of Bollywood. It's curtains for the ageless Dev Anand, who oversaw the growth of the Hindi film industry from the black and white era to technicolour, and leaves behind a unique legacy of a star who had moved way beyond his cinematic works.
He acted, he directed and produced... almost till the end with his last film 'Chargesheet' being released this year when he was all of 88 and still raring to go, as ebullient and ageless as ever. Reviewing 'Chargesheet', a well known critic put against the rating 'irrelevant'. It truly didn't matter by then whether the film was good or bad. The much loved legend had given so much through the years that he was forgiven almost everything.
Dev Saab on his 87th birthday.
Dev Anand epitomised the suave, urban gentleman who romanced his way through generations of heroines -- from Nalini Jaywant to Zeenat Aman.
And of course, his charming persona is incomplete without a
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