In Romancing with Life, the firstever fullfledged memoir by a leading Bollywood star, Dev Anand tells his remarkable life story like only he can. Here are tales from Devs youth in 1930s Gurdaspur and Lahore, his years of struggle in 1940s Bombay, his friendship with Guru Dutt and his doomed romance with Suraiya, his marriage to costar Kalpana Kartik, his relationships with his brothers Chetan and Vijay Anand, with S.D. and R.D. Burman, with his compatriots Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, to both of whom he was very close, and with his heroines from Geeta Bali, Madhubala, Meena Kumari, Nutan, Vyjayanthimala, Mumtaz and Hema Malini to Waheeda Rehman, Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim, all of whom he launched. Dev Anand has produced an unputdownable book chockfull of bittersweet reminiscences, written in a pacy, effervescent style that carries the reader through sixty of Bollywoods most interesting years. With rare pictures from his personal archive, Romancing with Life is the quintessential Dev Anand.