‘Dev Anand @ 100’ film festival kicks off with ‘Johny Mera Naam’, ‘Guide’ screenings
The Hindu
‘Dev Anand @ 100 - Forever Young’, a film festival celebrating the birth centenary of screen icon Dev Anand, opened in Mumbai on Saturday evening with packed shows of the actor’s popular films ‘Johny Mera Naam’ and ‘Guide’
‘Dev Anand @ 100 - Forever Young’, a film festival celebrating the birth centenary of screen icon Dev Anand, opened on Saturday evening with packed shows of the actor’s popular films Johny Mera Naam and Guide at PVR Juhu in Mumbai.
The two-day event, curated by Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), showcases four of the actor's movies. The other two films, CID and Jewel Thief will be screened on Sunday.
Waheeda Rehman, Dev Anand's co-star in films such as CID and Guide, actor Jackie Shroff, filmmaker Sriram Raghavan, and FHF director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur introduced the two titles marking the opening of the festival.
Rehman recounted being introduced to Dev Anand on the sets of CID, the 1956 film which marked her Hindi cinema debut.
"I feel very lucky that I did my first film CID with Dev sahab. When we were introduced, I called him 'Dev sahab', he said 'Waheeda, you won't call me Dev sahab'. I said 'I'm not that ill-mannered, you are elder to me and such a big star. This is my first film. How can I not call you Dev sahab?' He said, 'I don't feel comfortable when someone calls me 'sahab', I feel like a school teacher. So, just call me Dev'," the 85-year-old star said at the event.
Dev Anand was the "only actor I addressed by first name", she added.
"Not once did he make me feel that he is such a huge star or older to me in age. He made me feel comfortable and was cooperative. I'm proud to have worked with a legend like Dev Anand. I wish he was here. I'm sure up there he must be feeling happy. He has received so much love from us," the actor said.
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