Chetan Anand (director)

Chetan Anand was a Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Palme dOr award at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Later he cofounded Navketan Films with his younger brother Dev Anand in 1949.

Chetan Anand was born onJanuary 1921, in Lahore, British India, to welltodo advocate Pishori Lal Anand. Chetan Anand 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 Mumbai to sell a film script.

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