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Romancing life dev anand pdf5/25/2023 ![]() They asked him to come over to Bombay Talkies at Malad where Ashok Kumar was both a leading actor and a joint owner of the company. Abbas who took a liking for him and gave him a place to live in his Shivaji Park house, something the young man was always grateful for. It was his elder brother Chetan Anand, a known name in theatre, films and social and cultural fields, who introduced him to well-known writers like Raja Rao and K. The young man found the job interesting, the letters he read gave him an insight to human relationships and human feelings the job also helped him to open up and make friends, girl friends specially who fell for him, his smile, for his charming ways and the puff in his hair. Soon, when the money he had brought with him got over and he realized he couldn't go on without money, Dev took up a job with the British Censor Office where he had to go through letters written by Indian soldiers forced by circumstances to fight with the British against Indians who were fighting for freedom from the British. ![]() He found a place to live in a room in Parel where some friends from Gurdaspur, most of them mill workers lived he only needed a place to sleep because he spent the whole day chasing his dreams. ![]() He knew it was difficult, he found it difficult but he had a smile on his face, a song on his lips and the kind of faith no power could take away from him.
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