Romancing with Life

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. 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. and R.D. 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. 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. With rare pictures from his personal archive Romancing with Life is the quintessential Dev Anand.