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  Blast from the past: Dev Anand weds Kalpana Kartik during a shooting break by  Devesh Sharma  | April 24, 2021, 19:46 IST It’s well known that Dev Anand was madly in love with Suraiya. He even bought her a huge diamond ring, which one account says her maternal grandmother threw in the sea, and other accounts say she herself flung it in the sea. He was heartbroken when she said no, allegedly because they belonged to different religions. Some even say that she was the bigger star than Dev Anand, and was the sole breadwinner of the family, hence her family didn’t want the union. They apparently had one last meeting where they both reportedly cried their hearts out. According to an interview given by Dev Anand’s close associate Mohan Churiwala, Suraiya’s mother asked Dev Anand to come on their terrace at 10 pm and meet her one last time. Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt asked him not to go alone fearing trouble. He took an inspector friend along. With two torches and a loaded gun, ...

KALPANA KARTHIK , HINDI ACTRESS , BECAME MISTRESS  OF DEV ANAND BY SECRET MARRIAGE   BORN 1931 SEPTEMBER 19 Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha) is a retired Hindi film actress. She starred in six films in the 1950s. She is the wife of Hindi film actor and film maker Late Dev Anand.[2] Mona Singha was a beauty queen while studying at St. Bede's College, Shimla. She was introduced to films by Chetan Anand of Navketan Films with the film Baazi in 1951. She co-starred with Dev Anand, whom she worked with in all her subsequent films. Her screen name - Kalpana Kartik - was given to her by Chetan Anand during this period.[3] Her other films were Aandhiyan (1952), Humsafar (1953), Taxi Driver (1954), House No. 44 (1954) and Nau Do Gyaraah (1957) Career Mona Singha, aka Kalpana Kartik, was born in a Punjabi Christian family in Lahore.[4] Her father was a Tehsildar of Batala in Gurdaspur District, and she was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. A...

Insaniyat (1955) insaniyat_zippy WC Fields once famously said: “Never act with children or animals.” Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand should have listened to him: they are completely overshadowed here by the charisma of a chimpanzee named Zippy. That’s not necessarily bad (or surprising) (I mean, it’s a chimp!), but I had hoped for a much better movie from these two screen legends in their only real outing together. Some of my disappointment was no doubt set up by these magazine covers which held out such promise of spectacular color: insaniyat_covers for a black and white film. Damn you and your beautiful but misleading posters, Filmindia! But even in color, this film would have been dull (just a little less so). Besides for Zippy and some occasional hilarity, the characters were boring and preachy—or cartoonishly villainous—and the story boring and predictable. Dilip was Tragic as always, but Dev somehow managed to not be his usual debonair self. Maybe Bina Rai didn’t ins...

LOVE COMES INSTANTLY  AND MARRIAGE GOES DISTANTLY IN INDIAN CINEMA View photos As Indian cinema turns 100, let us look back at some of the forbidden yet celebrated love stories of Bollywood. Time and time again, we hear about budding love affairs amongst Bollywood stars. While some go on to tie the knot, many end up with broken hearts. Here are the 8 unsuccessful love stories of the most successful celebrities of Bollywood. These are the off-screen romances of Indian cinema, left on an incomplete note. Dev Anand and Suraiya View photos The girl with a golden voice Suraiya met the debonair Dev Anand when she was just in her teens. She was on the peak of her career while Dev was just another debutant in the industry. However, love is too big an emotion to consider such differences. Soon these two good-looking stars fell in love. However, due to unprecedented family pressures especially from Suraiya’s grandmother, this love story could not have a happy...