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Dev Anand is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Indian born on 26 september 1923 at Shakargarh Tehsil (Pakistan)
Dharam Devdutt 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. Anand is regarded as one of the influential actors in the history of Indian cinema.
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 & the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002 for his contribution to Indian cinema. His career spanned more than 65 years with acting in 114 Hindi films of which 104 have him play the main solo lead hero and he did 2 English films.
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Dev Anand
Birth name Dharam Dev Pishorimal Ānand
Nationality Inde
Birth 26 september 1923 at Shakargarh Tehsil (Pakistan)
Death 3 december 2011 (at 88 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Filmfare Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 26 september 1923 at Shakargarh Tehsil (Pakistan)
Death 3 december 2011 (at 88 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Filmfare Awards
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 & the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002 for his contribution to Indian cinema. His career spanned more than 65 years with acting in 114 Hindi films of which 104 have him play the main solo lead hero and he did 2 English films.
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Pocket Maar (2014)
Actors Neil Nitin Mukesh, Asin Thottumkal, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan
Pocket Maar is the story of a man who is robbed while carrying money to stave off a personal crisis. The film will focus on the tragic consequences of what seems like a petty crime.
Chargesheet (2011)
Directed by Dev Anand
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Dev Anand, Divya Dutta, Milind Gunaji, Yashpal Sharma
Roles Gambhir Singh
Rating62%
The film is based on the death of the late Divya Bharti and the mystery surrounding it, as even today the circumstances of her death are unknown. It also focuses on the criminal life of common people.
Mr Prime Minister (2005)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Dev Anand, Prem Chopra, Boman Irani, A. K. Hangal, Tara Sharma, Shahbaz Khan
Rating54%
Love at Times Square (2003)
Directed by Dev Anand
Genres Romance
Actors Chaitanya Choudhry, Moon Moon Sen, Lucky Ali, Ashish Chowdhry, Salman Khan, Dev Anand
Roles Shaan
Rating24%
Sweety (Heene) is the daughter of a billionaire Indian (Dev Anand). The girl's father organizes a musical concert at Times Square where she comes across two young boys: Raj (Shoeb Khan) and Bobby (Chaitanya Chaudhary). Raj is a computer engineer and works in the Silicon Valley whereas Bobby, who is a middle class person, has come to the US in order to earn a bright future. Sweety (Heene) is pursuing her studies in Mass Communication in the US. Both the boys fall in love with the same girl (Sweety).
Censor (2001)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Jackie Shroff, Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Mamta Kulkarni, Rekha, Shammi Kapoor
Rating33%
Under the directions of the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, the Indian Censor Board prepares a list of cuts for Bollywood film producer, Vikramjeet's new movie "Aane Wala Kal". Vikramjeet is unhappy and decides to meet the Minister himself to appeal against these cuts, only to find out that the Minister favors even more cuts. Then Vikramjeet shows this movie in a private theatre to an audience from all walks of life, he then takes their written opinion, smuggles a copy to America, just in time to ensure that it is nominated for an Oscar. This is where Vikramjeet's troubles start as the Censor Board refuses to grant a "U" certificate; he is arrested for smuggling the movie without permission from the Reserve Bank of India. The only way he can escape the wrath of the authorities is getting some fans and stars of his movie to gather some dirt on the Censor Board members and expose them publicly. But will this pacify the authorities, or will it aggravate the situation. Watch what the wily 80-year-old veteran does to try and show his movie uncut and with the "U" rating.
Main Solah Baras Ki (1998)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Dev Anand, Tanuja, Deepak Tijori, Neeru Bajwa, Supriya Karnik, Anant Mahadevan
Rating45%
Return of Jewel Thief (1996)
Actors Dev Anand, Dharmendra, Ashok Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Shilpa Shirodkar, Anu Agarwal
Roles Vinay Kumar
Rating45%
The British Government agree to loan the priceless Kohinoor diamond for an exhibition to multi-billionaire Vinay Kumar, on posting the security of Vinay’s jewel collection worth Rs.500 billion. Despite top security the Kohinoor diamond gets stolen. The prime suspects are Vinay himself, as simultaneously his jewel collection posted as security goes missing; Police Commissioner Surya Dev Singh, the very last person to have supposedly handled the diamond as also being the son of Prince Arjun, the jewel thief from the original film; Con-man Johnny, who has acquired a reputation of being a jewel thief; Jukaso, a gangster of international repute; and Chief Minister Neelkanth who had, in the presence of Surya Dev Singh, kept the Kohinoor in his safe. With the Chief Minister and the Police Commissioner themselves suspects, no one really knows who the real criminal is.
Gangster (1994)
Directed by Dev Anand
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Dev Anand, Mink Brar, Ajit Khan
Rating53%
Sau Crore (1991)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Dev Anand, Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Bharat Bhushan, Kiran Kumar, Jeetendra
Rating45%
After her husband Raj (Raman Kapoor) is murdered, Kamlesh (Fatima Sheikh) receives a shock and doesn't speak for days. The cause of this is that she indeed witnessed her husband's murder. But who did murder Raj? Was it really the politician Somnath (Naseeruddin Shah) who fell in love with Kamlesh and wanted to marry her? Was it a plot created by Somnath's rival candidate Mohanbhai (Anupham Kher) to win the elections? Or was it Kamlesh herself who wanted to leave Raj and run off with Somnath? It's up to CBI Inspector Kumar (Dev Anand) to find out.
Awwal Number (1990)
Directed by Dev Anand
Themes Sports films
Actors Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Aditya Pancholi, Vikram Gokhale, Parikshit Sahni, Rakesh Bedi
Roles DIG Vikram Singh (Vicky)
Rating45%
The story revolves around cricket where a new star Sunny (Aamir Khan) has been included in the team in place of another famous star Ronny (Aditya Pancholi). All this creates hatred in the heart of Ronny against Sunny, although Sunny respects him. Ronny decides to take revenge on Sunny; meanwhile a terrorist decides to put a bomb in the field where a match is to be organised between India and Australia.
Sachché Ká Bol-Bálá (1989)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Dev Anand, Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Seshadri, Prem Chopra, Hema Malini, Sadashiv Amarapurkar
Rating58%
Karan Kaul (Dev Anand) is the Editor of a daily newspaper called "The Truth". He is respected by his fans and critics alike. He loves Greeta Saunders (Hema Malini), a Swiss national of Indian origin. Then Karan himself becomes a suspect, and faces loss of credibility, when he is accused of killing Greta, after the police find evidence linking his footprints at the scene of crime.
In Search of Guru Dutt (1989)
, 1h24Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Abrar Alvi, Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Waheeda Rehman, Raj Khosla, Shyam Benegal, V.K. Murthy
Roles Self
Rating72%
Lashkar (1989)
Actors Dev Anand, Javed Jaffrey, Hemant Birje, Aditya Pancholi, Sumeet Saigal, Sonam
Roles Professor Anand
Rating56%
Hum Naujawan (1985)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Dev Anand, Tabu, Raj Babbar
Roles Professor Hans
Rating52%
Professor Hans joins as new principal of Oceanic College. Her teenaged daughter Priya is raped and killed. He finds clues pointing towards a college student, Shammi, who is the son of the Home Minister, Desai. The Police Commissioner Khan is informed but he is unable to take any action against the minister's son. Rashmi and Sanjay, students in the college, help Prof Hans as together they trick Shammi into confessing to his crime.
Anand Aur Anand (1984)
Directed by Dev Anand
Actors Dev Anand, Rakhee Gulzar, Suneil Anand, Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, Biswajit Chatterjee
Roles Arun Anand
Rating60%
Arun Anand (Dev Anand) has been married for several years now, but his wife (Raakhee) is unable to conceive. Arun has an affair with his personal secretary, Kiran (Smita Patil), and as a result Kiran gets pregnant. Arun does not want a scandal to upset his wife, so he asks an impotent union leader, Pratap Singh (Raj Babbar), to marry Kiran, sire the child, and then divorce her, all for a hefty sum of money. Pratap agrees to this arrangement, and soon a boy is born. Pratap then changes his mind about divorcing Kiran, as her son is proof of his virility and manhood, and as such disappears from Arun's life. Years later Kiran's son has grown up and named Varun Singh (Suneil Anand). Arun finally finds out about them and meets them, but is rejected by Varun, who has come to accept Pratap as his father. There is a confrontation between Pratap and his employer, Thakur (Biswajeet), and as a result, Varun is abducted, tied to a tree with four wild elephants who are made to drink alcohol, and after which will go on a drunken and virtually unstoppable rampage - starting with the gory death of the person nearest to them - Varun.