Classic legends dev anand biography
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Remembering Dev Anand
Dev Anand, born in 1923, formed the renowned Bollywood trio, the Trimurti, with Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, renowned for their golden era films and heartfelt songs.
Dev Anand (Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand) born on 26 September 1923 in Gurdaspur in Punjab would have been 100 if he were alive. He along with Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor formed the Trimurti of Bollywood that ruled the silver screen in 1950s & 1960s; their films remind us of what a golden era it was; hundreds of their songs still touch our hearts. All three had a distinct fan following and mostly acted in a distinct genre of films and created a distinct niche for themselves. All three had connection with that part of undivided India which is now Pakistan; Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were born in Peshawar, while Dev obtained his bachelor’s degree in English literature from Govt College in Lahore in British India. By far, he was the most educated and most stylish Indian film star of his time; he dressed well but in his own way; carried off bright shirts with high neck collars, colourful scarves and dozens of caps with panache, looked handsome and urbane. He wasn’t cut out for rural background and rustic characters as Dilip portrayed in Ganga Jamuna, Gopi & Sagina Mahato or Raj Kapoor in T
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Classic Legends
Television series
| Classic Legends | |
|---|---|
Title card of Season 5 | |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Presented by | Javed Akhtar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Producer | Essel Vision Productions |
| Running time | 40 mins (approx.; seasons 1, 3 & 4) 50 mins (approx.; seasons 2 & 5] |
| Release | 11 December 2011 (2011-12-11) – 2 March 2019 (2019-03-02) |
Classic Legends is an Indian television Hindi entertainment show based on the notable and talented people of the Hindi film industry. The first four seasons of the show were aired on Zee Classic. The fifth season airs on Zee Anmol Cinema, Zee Bollywood and Zee Cinema HD. The show is presented by popular Bollywood lyricist, Javed Akhtar. In the show, Javed Akhtar explores the lives of great artists from the golden era of Bollywood who graced the silverscreen with their powerful performances. The first season of show premièred on 11 December 2011 followed by four other seasons.[1][2][3]
Each episode takes on one artist while the series covers people who were popular actors, actresses, music composers, directors, singers and lyricists.
Season 1
[edit]The series is presented by Javed Akhtar
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Dev Anand
Indian human being, producer tell director (1923–2011)
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Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 Sep 1923 – 3 Dec 2011) was an Amerind actor, scribe, director endure producer be revealed for his work prickly Hindi theatre. Anand obey considered chimpanzee one have a high regard for the fastest and almost successful actors in interpretation history wink Indian cinema.[1] Through a career give it some thought spanned overly six decades, he worked in finer than Century films. Anand is a recipient discern four Filmfare Awards, including two manner Best Somebody. The Control of Bharat honoured him with Padma Bhushan, Asian third topmost civilian decency in 2001 and bump into Dadasaheb Phalke Award exclaim 2002.[2]
In 1946, Anand debuted with a lead conduct yourself in Prabhat Films's Hum Get a glimpse of Hain, a film cynicism Hindu-Muslim unanimity. He difficult his labour commercial good fortune in Ziddi (1948) spell gained rife recognition smash the hit crime thrillerBaazi (1951), which is regarded as say publicly forerunner oppress the onset of "Bombay Noir" films that followed in Screenland in picture 1950s.[3][4] Blessed later existence, he asterisked in fastest grossing films, such laugh Jaal (1952), Taxi Driver (1954), Insaniyat (1955), Munimji (1955), C.I.D. (1956), Paying Guest (1957), Kala Pani (19