Film Heritage Foundation announces two-day festival to celebrate Dev Anand’s birth centenary

By: Priyal Joshi

An event honoring screen legend Dev Anand’s 100th birth anniversary will be held later this month, the Film Heritage Foundation announced on Monday. On September 3 and 24, a two-day festival will take place in 55 movie theaters and 30 cities around the nation. Dev Anand, star of films such as “Hum Dono”, “Tere Ghar Ke Samne”, “CID”, and “Guide”, will be honoured ahead of his birthday on September 26 with a gala titled ‘Dev Anand@100 – Forever Young’.

The FHF, founded by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has curated a collection of four of the actor’s movies for the showcase: “CID” (1956), “Guide” (1965), “Jewel Thief” (1967) and “Johny Mera Naam” (1970), according to reports.

According to the press release, viewers will be able to view these iconic Dev Anand movies restored by NFCDC-NFAI in 4K resolution for the big screen in cities- Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Chennai, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Kolkata, Guwahati, Indore, Jaipur, Nagpur, New Delhi, Gwalior, Rourkela, Kochi, and Mohali.

After a successful run with ‘Bachchan Back To The Beginning’ and ‘Dilip Kumar – Hero Of Heroes’, Dungarpur said they had to celebrate the birth centenary of Dev Anand, PTI reported.

In an official statement, the FHF founder said, “We wanted to honour his legacy by screening four of his milestone films. The films are among my personal favourites as I consider Goldie Anand (Vijay Anand) one of the most stylish directors of Indian cinema.”