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  • Shemaroo Entertainment pays fulsome tribute to the evergreen hero of Hindi cinema, Dev Anand, with dedicated YouTube channels showcasing the songs picturised on him.

    Your fill of Dev Anand on Shemaroo

    By A Correspondent

     

    Shemaroo Entertainment salutes the energy of the evergreen romantic hero of Indian Cinema – Dev Anand. No one can forget the puffed hairstyle, his angular, swinging walk, his sing-song dialogue delivery and the songs picturised on him.

     

    Now you can watch all your favourite Dev Anand songs on FilmiGaane, a channel by Shemaroo Entertainment on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12C875791E905B04&feature=view_all.

     

    The channel has about 150 evergreen Dev Anand songs, and one can also can enjoy specially created playlist of songs featuring Dev Anand with his wife Kalpana Kartik at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90731E2132821A1D&feature=view_all

     

    The channel also has a special playlist of Dev Anand’s collaboration with S D Burman which can be on accessed at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D403A1C0FF73A93&feature=view_all

     

    The channel also provides free preview of 15 minutes of Dev Saab’s movies Asli Naqli and Jali Note at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpJluh0nkhM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yThGz0U33vY

     

    The channel also provides a link, https://www.facebook.com/events/227571690647532/?notif_t=event_invite, where viewers can share thoughts about his work.

  • The 'on-hold' status of FDI in multi-brand retail sends the message that India is a country of uncertain climate and even shakier governance.

    Hard Knocks: Crossed signals over FDI

    By Anil Thakraney

     

    I often wonder why international corporates even want to invest in a messy country like India. Why do they wish to take on all the headaches of operating inside such a chaotic nation. The answer, I suppose, is the market saturation in their own lands, and a raging desire to capitalize on the booming spending populace of this third world nation. Which makes the suits risk an entry into this snake pit.

     

    Well, all I can say is that these companies are either gutsy or desperate or both. If I was an international investor, I would quietly park my money in China. Or even Vietnam and Indonesia. And fly over India. Look at all the tamasha that just happened over the issue of FDI in multi-brand retail. And now it’s been put on ‘hold’… an euphemistic way of saying that the government chickened out of the deal. Here are the three messages we just sent to the global businessmen:

     

    1> The Indian PM is lamer than a lame duck. He has the vision, but lacks the ability, wherewithal and support to push new projects through. That, not just his rivals and allies, even his own party men can upset his plans at any time.

    2> Even if the FDI in retail bill gets passed, which is now a very remote possibility (even Baba Ram Dev doesn’t like it!), it’s left to the various states to accept or reject it. So you could be present in Delhi and Mumbai but missing in Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai. And when the state government changes, there’s no surety the new government won’t kick you out of the city. So there’s never any hope of stability.

    3> Goons of various political parties are always ready for some action on the streets. So to pacify a particular vote bank segment, there’s always a chance that they will strike your super expensive store. Shattered glass panes, damaged wares and bruised business could be just a stone’s throw away.

     

    Yes, India is a hot destination for dhandha. But only for the steely, hardy, brave risk-takers.

     

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    PS: Quite liked the rich tributes various TV channels paid to Devsaab immediately on the news of his death. The best package was put out by Times Now (pretty much non-stop coverage) and Aaj Tak (the only channel that told us some untold Dev Anand tales). The only disappointment came from NDTV. On a day like that, when the whole nation was humming Dev’s classics, they ran an hour-long, maha-boring prime time show on parliament adjournments. From the sublime to the ridiculous.

  • In Freaking News, Ranjona Banerji reviews the fare on primetime news and the morning papers

    R.I.P, Dev Saab

    By Ranjona Banerji

     

    The death of Dev Anand, not unnaturally, took up most of Sunday’s news and a good proportion of Monday’s newspapers. To the more maudlin amongst us, it seems that 2011 has stolen many of our “icons” (The cynical might argue that death is inevitable). But when it comes to Dev Anand, no amount of mourning is enough and no encomium over the top. This is a loss of an amazing spirit and an irrepressible zest for life. In this ego-ridden world, Anand refused to rest on his past laurels and kept looking ahead to his new ventures. He did not seem fazed – or if he was he did not let them daunt him – by his many failures in the last 20 years. He just kept on. The Times of India most appropriately headlined their lead, ‘India’s Youngest Star Dies at 88’.

     

    From being one of the triumvirate who ruled Hindi cinema in the 1950s,60s and even the 70s and beyond, to a whimsical director who refused to be defeated either by age or opinion, Dev Anand carried the flag of both the golden age as well as the future.

     

    The fact is that Anand was criticised through the later part of his life – albeit affectionately – and he took it all in his stride. In death, then, we can only look back on a glorious life.

     

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    Most called Anand’s death ‘end of an era’, which indeed it does signify. The international media has picked it up as well and not just because Anand died in London. Bollywood and India’s reach is now well known. But Anand also made a name for himself a long time ago with Guide. Renowned novelist Pearl Buck adapted RK Narayan’s novel for the 1956 English version of the movie. The Hindustan Times, harking back to one of Dev Anand’s seminal films, headlined their second lead, ‘Indian cinema loses its ‘Guide’. Though one is not sure whether Anand would have been happy with being called a guide; perhaps he saw himself more as a trailblazer! (It is another matter that the making and final versions of Guide, gave Narayan close to a nervous breakdown!)

     

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    The newspapers have been full of tributes and over the next weeks we are bound to see more, from those who know him well, those who met him only once, the various people he introduced to cinema and his millions of fans.

     

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    Based on a conversation on Twitter and my own observation, it appears that reporters have so much to thank social media and micro-blogging for. The tedious task of calling people for reactions to some event has now been replaced by logging on to twitter and taking down comments. So much easier than conventional calls and with no chance of the person being “misquoted”?

     

    (Unless of course you quote Suhel Seth whose twitter account is apparently hacked into at regular intervals!)

  • 'Dev Anand was mortal?' went one Facebook reaction, and indeed it seemed as if the 'evergreen hero' would sing and dance his way through life forever. Adman Piyush Pandey lists but half a dozen of the eternally memorable songs picturised on Dashing Dev

    The Anchor: Piyush Pandey picks his 6 all-time favourite Dev Anand numbers

    By Piyush Pandey 

     

    When asked to list my favourites, I actually wrote down these songs on a piece of envelope recalling his work. I don’t use the internet so I didn’t rely on Google to help me with these songs. These are songs that have left an impression on me and are stored somewhere within me. [First published: December 5, 2011, updated September 25, 2023]

     

    #1 Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya, har fikr ko dhuen main udata chala gaya from the movie Hum Dono. The philosophy of life that the lyrics of this song embody makes it my favourite. It’s about being happy, and not looking back but moving ahead in life.

     

     

    #2 Yeh dil na hota bechara, kadam na hote aawara from the movie Jewel Thief. All the songs I am listing express emotions in a beautiful manner. These do not rely on any kind of musical gimmick but are genuine pearls on life and its ways.

     

     

    #3 Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukare chale gaye, sagar mein zindagi ko utare chale gaye from Kala Pani. The song is a perfect example of stringing emotions with powerful lyrics.

     

     

    #4 Apni to har aah ik toofan hai, upar wala jaan kar anjaan hai from Kala Bazaar. The song plays a pun on the word uparwala. It’s picturised in a train and Dev Anand in the song actually means the girl on the upper berth but puns the word to signify uparwala as God.

     

     

    #5 Dil aaj shayar hai, gham aaj nagma hai from Gambler. Dev Anand’s songs, like the man himself, reflect his passion for life. He had been romancing life through all of his songs and somewhere this passion kind of drips from the work he did.

     

     

    #6 Phoolon ke rang se, dil ki kalam se tujhko likhi roz paati from Prem Pujari. I am a big fan of Dev Anand’s, and have seen some of his movies like Johnny Mera Naam repeatedly.