Romancing With Life : An Autobiography
With the death of Dev Anand in December 2011, Bollywood lost its most passionate, most charismatic romantic hero. In Romancing with Life, Dev Anand tells his remarkable life story no less dramatic and gripping than any of his films as only he could. Here are tales from Dev s youth in 1930s Gurdaspur and Lahore; his years of struggle in 1940s Bombay; his doomed romance with Suraiya; his marriage to co-star Kalpana Kartik; and his relationships with his many luminous heroines. Romancing with Life is the quintessential Dev Anand a book chock-full of bittersweet reminiscences, written in a pacy, effervescent style that carries the reader through sixty of Bollywood s most interesting years.
