Karan Dewan

Karan Dewan was an Indian cinema actor in Hindi films. He worked in over seventy films from 194179. He started as a journalist while still in college, editing a filmbased magazine in Urdu. His brother was a film producer and director, Jaimani Dewan.

Dewan Karan Chopra, youngest of three brothers was born onNovember 1917, at Gujranwala, Punjab , British India. He studied in Lahore, where he became interested in journalism and started editing a film magazine in Urdu, Jagat Lakshmi. One of the local distributors he met was Tarachand Barjatya, who was then the Manager of Chandanmal Inder Kumars distribution office at Lahore. Through his connection with Barjatya he landed in Calcutta, and in 1941, made his acting debut as Puran in the Punjabi language feature film Puran Bhagat .

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