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| Dev Anand considered himself to be lucky to get a chance to star opposite such an established actress and accepted the offers. |
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| Dev Anand made his debut as an actor with the movie 'Hum Ek Hain'(1946). |
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| In the late forties Dev Anand got a few offers to star opposite singer-actress Suraiya in woman oriented films, as the male lead. |
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| Dev was offered his first big break by Ashok Kumar. He spotted Dev hanging around in the studios and picked him as the hero for the Bombay Talkies production, 'Ziddi', costarring Kamini Kaushal (1948). |
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| Dev chose Guru Dutt as director for the crime thriller, 'Baazi' (1951). The film starring Dev Anand, Geeta Bali and Kalpana Kartik was a trendsetter regarded as the forerunner of the spate of urban crime films that followed in Bollywood in the 1950s. |
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| He starred in a string of box office successes for the remainder of the 1950s opposite newcomer Waheeda Rehman in 'C.I.D'. (1956), 'Solva Saal', 'Kala Pani', 'Kala Bazar' and 'Baat Ek Raat Ki'. |
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| While shooting these films, he became romantically involved with Suraiya. |
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| The collaboration was a success at the box office and the pair Dev Anand %u2014 Kalpana Kartik were offered many films to star in together. They signed all the film offers and subsequently the movies 'Aandhiyan', 'Taxi Driver', 'House No. 44' and 'Nau Do Gyarah'. |
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| Dev Anand's leading ladies: One of the ultimate romantic heroes of Bollywood - here's a look at Dev Anand's leading ladies. |
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