"I came to Bombay with thirty rupees in my pocket": Dev Anand, in Mumbai

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Indian actor Dev Anand speaks about his struggle to become an actor, he says, "My father was a great lawyer of his own times in a place called Gurdaspur, Gurdaspur was in the news these days, the border town between India and Pakistan. I did my first schooling in Gurdaspur which is in Gurdaspur and Dalhousie. I used to be in school in Gurdaspur during summer and shift to Dalhousie, a hill station in convent and then I did my matriculation in Gurdaspur and then I went to Dharamshala which is in Himachal and then to Lahore for my graduation. After my graduation, I had not been there because I decided to come away be on my own. I want to be known to the world and when you have people around you who pull you down to their own affiliations and affections and persuade you to do something that yo