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SIGHTINGS
Dev Anand's long romance
SUCHITRA BEHAL
Sixty-two years lived to the fullest and still counting; That’s actor DEV ANAND. At the age of 84 the man has more enthusiasm for life than many of his younger contemporaries. Ask him the secret of his never-say-die spirit, pat comes the reply,
“I love what I do”. After being an actor for years and director for many more, Dev Anand has turned his attention to writing.
Waiting to launch his autobiography on his birthday, he is thrilled by the fact that the Prime Minister and he share birthdays and also that the PM has consented to launch his book. “This book does not belong to me alone. It belongs to all those people who love me and to the whole world really.”
Called Romancing With Life, the book runs into about 455 pages. “Yes it is a bit long but I have so much to tell. It is about my 62 years in Mumbai, where I came as a non-entity from Pakistan.”
Though the book has taken a lot of his time, it was a “true and honest effort and is not ghost written. I have scripted it by hand; no computer. My only condition to the publishers was that nothing should be changed. They agreed and now it’s ready,” exulted Dev Anand.
Like all his mega projects, this one too is slated to hit the stores worldwide.
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