Dev Anand Best Movies

Dev Anand Best Movies is the collection of top bollywood movies of Dev Anand. Dev Anand is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002 for his contributions towards Indian cinema. In the late forties Dev Anand got few offers to star opposite singer-actress Suraiya in woman oriented films, as the male lead. The two of them were paired in six films together - Vidya(1948), Jeet(1949), Shair(1949), Afsar(1950), Nili (1950), Do Sitare(1951) and Sanam(1951), which were all successful at the box office and in these films Suraiya was always first billed in credits to imply she was a bigger star than Dev Anand.

Dev Anand Best Movie - Ziddi (1948)

Ziddi is a 1948 Hindi film directed by Shaheed Latif. It was based on a story by Ismat Chughtai and launched the career of Dev Anand as the lead hero. The playback singers - Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar recorded their first duet - "Ye Kaun Aya Re" together in this 1948 film Ziddi.

Actors – Dev Anand, Chanda and Kamini Kaushal

Director – Shaheed Latif

Dev Anand Best Movie - Darling Darling (1977)

Darling Darling is a Hindi romantic movie, directed by Gogi Anand.

Actors – Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman and Nadira

Director – Gogi Anand

Dev Anand Best Movie - Guide (1965)

Guide is a 1965 Hindi film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who also contributed to the screenplay. The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel, The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, and is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Indian film industry. A Guide falls in love with a married woman, then is jailed for forgery and stealing money from her.

Actors – Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman and Leela Chitnis

Director – Vijay Anand

Dev Anand Best Movie - Funtoosh (1956)

Funtoosh is a musical and romantic movie, slickly directed by Chetan Anand and produced by Dev Anand's Navketan. A very good entertainer with very good music by Sachin Dev Burman. Dev Anand gave a good performance, while Sheila Ramani was a perfect foil to him.

Actors – Dev Anand, Sheila Ramani and K.N. Singh

Director – Chetan Anand

Dev Anand Best Movie - Love Marriage (1959)

Love Marriage is a romantic movie, directed by Subodh Mukherji. Sunil Kumar rents a room in the city where he is to play cricket for the home team. He meets with the landlord's daughter, who instantly dislikes him. But after watching him play cricket, she falls in love with him, and both decide to get married. After the marriage both decide to re-locate and do so, living harmoniously for sometime, before differences arise, threatening to break up their "love marriage".

Actors – Dev Anand, Mala Sinha and Abhi Bhattacharya

Director – Subodh Mukherji

Dev Anand Best Movie - Manzil (1960)

Dev Anand gave a scintillating, and restrained, performance as a lover. Dev Anand, who had just returned from England after studying in the Royal Academy of Music, and K. N. Singh, his father, have a constant tiff as Dev wants to make music making his career, while Singh wants him to carry on with his civil contracting business. Things worsen when Nutan comes to meet Dev. She coaxes him to go to Bombay and prove that he can make a successful career in music also.

Actors – Dev Anand, Nutan and K.N. Singh

Director – Mandi Burman

Dev Anand Best Movie - Kinare Kinare (1963)

Kinare Kinare is a Hindi Musical and romantic movie, directed by Chetan Anand. Dev Anand gave best performance in this movie.

Actors – Dev Anand, Meena Kumari and Chetan Anand

Director – Chetan Anand

Dev Anand Best Movie - Shair (1949)

Shair is a romantic movie, directed by Chawla. The film had Dev Anand acting opposite Suraiya and Kamini Kaushal in the eternal love triangle.

Actors – Suraiya, Kamini Kaushal and Dev Anand

Director – Chawla

Dev Anand Best Movie - Jeet (1949)

In Jeet India has finally won independence from British rule, and there are signs of progress among the population. One such sign of progress is in the village where two childhood sweethearts, namely Jeet and Vijay live. Vijay lives with his mom and brother Ratan. Ratan, who lives abroad, returns home to India, with all new ideas of progress and advancement.

Actors – Suraiya, Dev Anand and Kanhaiyalal

Director – Mohan Sinha

Dev Anand Best Movie - Baat Ek Raat Ki (1962)

Baat Ek Raat Ki is a 1962 Hindi mystery and thriller film directed by Shankar Mukherjee. Seema is in police custody for committing a murder. Believing that she did it, she confesses. When renowned lawyer, Rajeshwar decides to represent her, he accepts her guilt, but as he goes deep into the details of her story and the circumstances, he is not sure any more.

Actors – Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman and Chandrashekhar

Director – Shankar Mukherjee

Dev Anand Best Movie - Solva Saal (1958)

Solva Saal is a 1958 Hindi movie. Produced by Chandrakant C Desai, the film is directed by Raj Khosla. Classmates Laaj and Shyam elope to Bombay with Laaj's necklace, which they hope to pawn to pay for their travels. On the train, a crafty journalist named Pran overhears the lovers' plan and follows them in search of a story. When Shyam snatches the necklace and runs off, it's Pran to the rescue.

Actors – Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman and Jagdev

Director – Raj Khosla

Dev Anand Best Movie - Prem Pujari (1970)

Prem Pujari is a 1970 Bollywood film produced, directed and written by Dev Anand for Navketan films. Dev Anand is a peaceful, quiet man who is only interested in wildlife and nature. Then he is sent to the Indo-Chinese Border in the army by his father, a war hero. Here he refuses to lift his gun and attack. He is then court-martialled. Later he is captured by the Chinese and humiliated, but when a beautiful Chinese agent promises him a better future by working and spying for her (against India), he agrees but foils their wicked plans by spying over them.

Actors – Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman and Shatrughan Sinha

Director – Dev Anand

Dev Anand Best Movie - C.I.D. (1956)

A newspaper editor, Shrivastav, is killed when he was about to expose the underworld links of a very rich and influential person. C.I.D. Inspector Shekhar is assigned to this case, an investigation of which leads him to suspect Dharamdas and his men. But Dharamdas spins a web of lies and deceit, and Shekhar himself becomes a suspect, and is arrested by the police, and loses his job, leaving Dharamdas and his men to carry on undeterred.

Actors – Dev Anand, Shakila and Johnny Walker

Director – Raj Khosla

Dev Anand Best Movie - Jewel Thief (1971)

Jewel Thief is a 1971 Bollywood crime and musical movie.  Vinay, an ordinary young man who finds himself constantly mistaken for a look-alike jewel thief named Amar. Vinay works with the police to impersonate Amar and crack his crime ring--but it seems that Amar has decided to impersonate Vinay, as well, and soon their true identities are thoroughly muddled.

Actors – Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala

Director – Vijay Anand

Dev Anand Best Movie - Haré Raama Haré  Krishna (1971)

Hare Rama Hare Krishna is a 1971 Indian film directed by Dev Anand starring himself and Zeenat Aman. In the background of the rise of the International Hare Krishna movement in the 1970s, is a Montreal-based family of the Jaiswals, consisting of mom, dad, son, Prashant, and daughter, Jasbir. Due to irreconciable differences between Mr and Mrs Jaiswal, they separate, leaving Jasbir with dad, and Prashant with his mom. Eventually Prashant and his mom travel to India, leaving father and daughter behind in Montreal.

Actors – Zeenat Aman, Dev Anand and Mumtaz

Director – M.A. Thirumugham