Chetan Anand (3 January 1915 â€" 6 July 1997) was a Hindi film
producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut 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.He was the
eldest brother of the Anand family as he was the older brother of
Hindi film actor-directors, Dev Anand and Vijay Anand. His younger
sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of Hindi and English film
director Shekhar Kapur.Anand was born on 3 January 1921, in Lahore,
British India, to 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
Indian National Congress in the 1930s, subsequently worked for the BBC
and taught at the Doon School, Dehradun for a while, before coming
down to Bombay to sell a film script.
producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut 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.He was the
eldest brother of the Anand family as he was the older brother of
Hindi film actor-directors, Dev Anand and Vijay Anand. His younger
sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of Hindi and English film
director Shekhar Kapur.Anand was born on 3 January 1921, in Lahore,
British India, to 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
Indian National Congress in the 1930s, subsequently worked for the BBC
and taught at the Doon School, Dehradun for a while, before coming
down to Bombay to sell a film script.
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