Chetan Anand (3 January 1915 - 6 July 1997) was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter, and director from India, whose first film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize (now Golden Palm) at the first-ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Later, he co-founded Navketan Films with his younger brother Dev Anand in 1949.
Early life
Anand was born on 3 January 1915 in Lahore, British India, to a well-to-do advocate, Pishori Lal Anand. He went to Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya to study Hindu scriptures and graduated in English from Government College Lahore. He remained a member of the Indian National Congress in the 1930s, subsequently worked for the BBC, and taught at the Doon School in Dehradun for a while, before going to Bombay to sell a film script.
Career
In the early 1940s, while he was teaching history, he wrote a film script on King Ashoka, which he showed to the director Phani Majumdar in Bombay. Anand failed to qualify for the Indian Civil Service (ICS) exams in London. As luck would have it, Majumdar cast him as a lead in his Hindi film, Rajkumar, released in 1944. He also became associated with the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Bombay.
He soon took to film direction with the well-acclaimed movie Neecha Nagar which won the Palme d'Or award at Cannes in 1946. It was the first film for Kamini Kaushal, became the first Indian film to gain international recognition, and was the debut of Pandit Ravi Shankar.
By the early 1950s, he and his younger brother Dev Anand had set up Navketan Productions in Bombay present-day Mumbai. Afsar, starring Dev Anand and Suraiya, was the first film by Navketan, which turned out to be a moderate success. It was followed by Taxi Driver and Aandhiyan, both of which he directed for Navketan Films.[citation needed]
While he made his reputation as a director, Anand kept on acting too occasionally. He appeared in Humsafar made in 1957. In 1957, he directed two movies Arpan and Anjali, in which he played lead roles. He acted in Kala Bazar, Kinare-Kinare, Aman, Kanch Aur Heera, and Hindustan Ki Kasam, which he also directed.
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