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About 3 months ago, I had posted a story about the unrequited love between movie stars Dev Anand and Suraiya.
About 3 months ago, I had posted a story about the unrequited love between movie stars Dev Anand and Suraiya.
As a footnote to that , it might
interest some of you to know that Suraiya was a great fan of Gregory Peck (who
isn't ?) and harboured a secret girlish desire to met him someday .
It was 1954 , and one evening , the
doorbell to Suraiya's house on Marine Drive rang . A tall handsome foreigner was
at the door with a bunch of flowers and enquired about Suraiya from her mother
who had answered the bell.
He spent the next two hours there , and
Suraiya was beside herself with joy at her secret desire coming to fruition .
Among other things , she showed Greg. her scrapbook full of cuttings from his
films. No, Dev Anand wasn't even informed.
And Dev Anand has himself admitted , in
his Autobiography, that when he came to know of Suraiya's fascination for Greg.,
of how he would try to ape his mannerisms just to impress her .
They say , he looked like the Hollywood
Superstar . We wonder :
( this was taken at the Willingdon Club
in South Bombay when the Indian Film Industry gave a reception in honour of the
visiting Gregory Peck ).
Well , there is a faint resemblance ,
just faint. And that may be one reason why Madame was attracted to the debonair
Dev in the first place .
Yes, we understand . A poor man's ,
sorry woman's Gregory Peck.
Partha
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