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The youngest of all: Dev Anand amid his fans at the Literature Festival in Jaipur on Wednesday. JAIPUR: It was romancing both with words and the audience for Dev Anand, the grand old young man of Bollywood, on Wednesday, the first day of the week-long Literature Festival here. His charms intact and his voice not giving way even once during the 90-minute-long interaction, Dev Saheb sat steadfast talking about his times, yesteryears, and his latest foray into the world of writing with his recently published biography, “Romancing with Life”. “It is my life. It is about me. I wrote it like a screenplay, back and forth,” said Dev Anand while in conversation with Tishani Doshi, Chennai-based writer and dancer. “Yet working on a book and making a movie are altogether different experiences,” he said, not getting into the details of his debut venture. “I wrote this book for the heck of it,” he told the audience of writers, critics, publishers and fans including ladies only slightly younger than him in age. “Autobiographies are about candidness. Otherwise they don’t become autobiographies,” said the actor, known for his debonair roles in “Baazi”, “Taxi Driver”, “Funtoosh”, “CID”, “Paying Guest”, “Nau Do Gyarah” and “Kala Pani”, “Johny Mera Naam” and “Prem Pujari”, among many others. “No computers for me. I write in long hand. When my pen falls on paper I am totally tuned,” he divulged a bit of the writer’s ecstasy. “I could have done six books by now after being in the films for 62 long years. But I think one book is enough,” Dev Anand said while expressing his satisfaction for being with persons of letters. “Motion pictures are the greatest medium of the last century. Yet writing a book gives a different kind of satisfaction,” he said. Reaching Bombay from Lahore at the age of 19, Dev Anand struggled for two years to get a foothold in the film industry. “Those two years were my best education. I learnt more during that time than ever in my whole life,” he said confessing that he learnt from his mistakes. Recollecting his close relationship with Guru Dutt, Dev Anand said both of them entered the industry at the same time. “If ever I had a friend in the movie industry it was Guru Dutt. When he died after taking poison, I was the first to reach his place,” he recalled. Astonishing youthful and forward-looking at 85, Dev Saheb said he never kept a record of bad experiences in life and always looked forward. “It is a beautiful life; live it!” he said. Now you know the secret of his long life and happiness!
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