A Navketan Production

Some time in the mid-1940s, a young man named Dharam Dev Pishorimal Anand, a graduate from Lahore’s elite Government College, arrived in Bombay with the ambition of becoming an actor. He soon shortened his name to a more suave Dev Anand. A name to reckon with, as it turned out. Sidharth Bhatia’s Cinema Modern: The Navketan Story is, first and foremost, the story of Dev Anand. Perhaps fittingly so. After all, Dev Anand was, along with his older brother Chetan, the person who set up the production company, Navketan, in 1949 (“The flag was Navketan, literally a new banner, named after Chetan Anand’s newly born son, Ketan,” Bhatia says). 

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