Anand, Vijay

▪ 2005

“Goldie” 

      Indian film director, writer, and actor (b. Jan. 22, 1934, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India—d. Feb. 23, 2004, Mumbai [Bombay], India), was the visionary director of some of Bollywood's most respected movies and the younger brother of the legendary actor Dev Anand. He learned the craft while working with his older brother Chetan, and the three brothers collaborated under the auspices of the film company Navketan. Anand's work on the script of the 1954 Bollywood film Taxi Driver led to his first directing job, on Nau do gyarah (Nine Plus Two Makes Eleven; 1957). Of the dozens of successful Bollywood films with which he was involved, the most acclaimed was Guide (1965), which won several Filmfare Awards.

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