Many speculate that the Indian government may have funded Hara Ram Hara Krishna to improve India’s image. Thereafter, the role that Dev Anand may have played in cultivating the royal family of Nepal, and building relationships with the media of Kathmandu, can only be a matter of conjecture. After all, the interrelationship between the propaganda machinery of Foggy Bottom and Hollywood has long been widely known. The journalist claims that he subsequently suggested that the Indian state unleash Bollywood stars to fight the war of image in Nepal. During one of his regular runs to Kathmandu, Gandhi complained that he was quite bothered about the ‘anti-Indian’ feelings he encountered in the streets. Back then, Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian Airlines pilot who helped out ‘Mummy’ in whatever way he could. Reinforcing the adage that there is no smoke without fire, a Kathmandu-based journalist recently confided to this writer about a conversation that he had had with his Doon School junior in the early 1970s. While rumours abound that ‘non-commercial’ financing sources allow him to do what he fancies – rather than being bound by what will pass the muster of Bollywood distributors and mass audiences – he says nothing in this book to either confirm or deny such allegations. And yet, Dev Anand goes on making films, the latest of which was 2005’s Mr Prime Minister. After Hare Rama Hare Krishna in 1971, none of his films has been able to make a mark on either the critics or the box office. Even today, Anand apparently has no dearth of financiers, despite the fact that hardly any distributor will touch his productions.
But the source of money that funded his adventure with the genre of works that includes Ishq, Ishq, Ishq has always been something of a mystery. And in early May, the celebrity looked contentedly on as India’s new Ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood, launched the volume at an educational fair in Kathmandu.Ĭontroversial tycoon Srichand P Hinduja’s association with Anand’s most famous film, Guide, is already well known. In December, actor Cary Grant’s wife released it at Marawha Ranch, in Malibu. In October 2007, Amitabh Bachchan unveiled Romancing with Life in Bombay.
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But, like most of Anand’s films, his book too will probably be forgotten, once the current series of ‘launching ceremonies’ are over. An autobiography is by definition self-centred, of course, but it is rare that a writer says almost nothing else. The very first paragraph of the first chapter opens with six I’s and eight me’s. If you are not a diehard fan, there is little reason to even open the tome. And that about sums up the content of the book, as well: it is a story of Dev Anand’s obsession with himself. He is surrounded by tiny silver stars apparently, he considers himself quite the superstar. The dust-jacket displays an imposing colour mug-shot of the actor, in a new toupee and his trademark attire. Likewise, his newly released autobiography can be fairly judged by its cover. With rare pictures from his personal archive, "Romancing with Life" is the quintessential Dev Anand.Dev Anand has always been better known for his wigs than his films, his looks than his talents, and his mannerisms than his acting or directing abilities. 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. 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. 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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