Editing Dev Anand (section)

==Early life and family==
[[File:Batala Dera Sahib.jpg|thumb|Dev Anand was born and brought up in [[Gurdaspur]]]]

Anand was born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand on 26 September 1923<ref>{{cite news |author=Ceylan Yeginsu |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/dev-anand-best-moments-he-died-photos-553470 |title=Dev Anand: Best Moments Before he Died [PHOTOS&#93; |work=Ibtimes.com |date=4 December 2011 |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806142313/http://www.ibtimes.com/dev-anand-best-moments-he-died-photos-553470 |archive-date=6 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=r1>Dev Anand (2007) ''Romancing With Life, An Autobiography''. Penguin/Viking. p. 1 {{ISBN|0-670-08124-8}}.</ref> in the [[Shakargarh Tehsil]] of the [[Gurdaspur District (British Punjab)|Gurdaspur district]] in [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]] (now [[Narowal District]], [[Punjab, Pakistan]]).<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Remembering Dev Anand with facts on the evergreen Bollywood star |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/dev-anand-338405-2016-09-26 |access-date=19 April 2021 |magazine=India Today |date=26 September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Shalu |title=Dev Anand's 96th birth anniversary: Some lesser-known facts about the legend |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities/dev-anand-birthday-special-unknown-facts-552419 |access-date=19 April 2021 |work=India TV News |date=25 September 2019 |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419131947/https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities/dev-anand-birthday-special-unknown-facts-552419 |url-status=live }}</ref>  

His father Pishori Lal Anand was a prominent lawyer in Gurdaspur District Court. Pishori Lal Anand was also a [[Indian independence movement|freedom fighter]] and scholar affiliated with the [[Arya Samaj]] organization, who would study world religions in different languages (the [[Bhagavad Gita|Bhagavad-Gita]] in [[Sanskrit]], the [[Bible]] in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], the [[Quran|Qur'an]] in [[Arabic]] while he also knew [[Persian language|Persian]]).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bhosle |first=Varsha |date=4 April 1997 |title='A trend-setter must be cold-blooded, selfish and cruel -- he will go down in history as a saint' |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/apr/04dev1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210095727/https://www.rediff.com/movies/apr/04dev1.htm |archive-date=10 December 2024 |website=[[Rediff.com]] |quote=My father was an Arya Samaji. He was a freedom fighter, a lawyer and a great scholar. He knew Persian, studied the Quran in Arabic, the Geeta in Sanskrit, and the Bible in Hebrew.}}</ref> 

Dev was the third of four sons born to Pishori Lal Anand. One of Dev's younger sisters Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of film director [[Shekhar Kapur]]. His older brothers included Manmohan Anand (Advocate, Gurdaspur Dist. Court) and [[Chetan Anand (director)|Chetan Anand]], while [[Vijay Anand (filmmaker)|Vijay Anand]] was his younger brother.<ref name="r1" />

Anand did his schooling till matriculation from Sacred Heart School, Dalhousie (then in Punjab), and went to Government College [[Dharamshala]] before going to [[Lahore]] to study.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsbullet.in/movies/25-more/22514-dev-anand-had-confessed-his-love-for-suraiya-in-interview |title=Dev Anand had confessed his love for Suraiya |date=6 December 2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=15 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108104543/http://www.newsbullet.in/movies/25-more/22514-dev-anand-had-confessed-his-love-for-suraiya-in-interview |archive-date=8 January 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Dev-Anand-death-Punjab-village-mourns-its-son-who-never-returned/articleshow/10981325.cms |title=Dev Anand death: Punjab village mourns its son who never returned |date=4 December 2011 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=15 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207181148/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Dev-Anand-death-Punjab-village-mourns-its-son-who-never-returned/articleshow/10981325.cms |archive-date=7 December 2011 }}</ref> Later Dev completed a B.A. degree in [[English Literature]] from the [[Government College, Lahore]] in [[British India]]. Part of [[List of Hindi film clans#Anand-Sahni family|the Anand family]], he co-founded [[Navketan Films]] in 1949 with his elder brother Chetan Anand.<ref>{{cite news|title=With Navketan Films, Anand brothers among Bollywood's first families |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-12-05/news/30477546_1_dev-anand-anand-brothers-navketan-films |publisher=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]] |date=5 December 2011 |access-date=15 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709073452/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-12-05/news/30477546_1_dev-anand-anand-brothers-navketan-films |archive-date=9 July 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=60 yrs of Dev Anand behind the scenes |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-08-30/news/27641581_1_dev-saab-des-pardes-hare-rama-hare-krishna |publisher=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]] |date=30 August 2009 |access-date=15 December 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707051320/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-08-30/news/27641581_1_dev-saab-des-pardes-hare-rama-hare-krishna |archive-date=7 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History of a forward-looking studio |url=http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/history-of-a-forward-looking-studio |publisher=The Sunday Guardian |author=Jai Arjun Singh |access-date=15 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310035120/http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/history-of-a-forward-looking-studio |archive-date=10 March 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>