We have got Very sad news Dev Anand, the ‘Evergreen Romantic Superstar’ of Indian cinema, has passed away in London last night following cardiac arrest. He was 88.
Dev was born Dharam Dev Pishori Anand on 26 September 1923 in Shakargarh Tehsil of Gurdaspur district (now in Narowal District, Pakistan) in undivided Punjab, British India to well-to-do advocate Pishori Lal Anand.
Dev Anand, after graduating in English Literature from the Government College, Lahore, British India left his hometown and came to Bombay in the early 1940s. He began his career in the military censor office at Churchgate, Bombay. He joined his older brother Chetan as a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA).
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