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Filmmaker · India

Chetan Anand

Died in 1997

Chetan Anand was born in Lahore on 3 January 1921, or 1915 according to some sources, the son of a lawyer and the eldest of the brothers Dev and Vijay Anand. A graduate in English of the Government College of Lahore, he failed the Indian civil service examination in London, worked for the BBC, then taught at the Doon School. He acted in the theatre with the Indian People's Theatre Association, co-founded Navketan with Dev Anand in 1949, and made a war film about 1962 and a Heer Raanjha in verse. He died in Bombay on 6 July 1997.

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