Dev Anand 'Romancing With Life' 08th Jan 2007
09.00 IST
By Agencies
Evergreen, debonair, urbane and classy are words which have described Devdutta Pishorimal Anand or simply Dev Anand aptly during parts of his six-decade film career and often throughout.
Be it at the beginning of his career, the zenith or what some would call, though the man himself vehemently denies, the fag end, the octogenarian Bollywood legend has staunchly refused to look back.
But that was till now.
This self-styled torchbearer of the future has now decided to chronicle his life and times and to a large extent that of Bollywood in an autobiography, however, without pausing for a breath.
"It's a shame if you have to look towards the past for strength. That would show you don't have anything more to offer. Don't belong to that set of people," the young-at-heart actor-director-producer said in Mumbai on Sunday.
"The world is always moving forward. You have to look ahead too," Anand, who handed over the manuscript of his autobiography to his publishers Penguin last week, said.
The aptly named 'Romancing With Life' will be out on bookshelves by March.
To a certain extent Anand's career, particularly after becoming a star, is also the story of independent India with the inescapable vicissitudes of a long innings adding drama, glamour, sweat, triumph and despair, all in ample amounts.
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Dev Anand 'Romancing With Life'
