From the archive record
Indian actor Dev Anand speaks about his struggle days, he says, "I think it's come to my mind very vividly because probably the 19th of July 1943 I landed in Bombay by the then frontier mail at the Bombay Central from Lahore which is now Pakistan after my graduation from Lahore Government College and I was very young I think I was eighteen and a half years old and I came with the positive mind to be in the movies because after my graduation I applied for a commission in the Navy, those were the war days and I was rejected because my father had political leanings, my older brother had political leanings for the Congress so the British Government was not very keen to take me in and I wanted an outlet for some expression and any individual who would like to put it across for the world so I th