Vijay Anand was also known as Goldie Anand. Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter actor Vijay Anand was born on 22 January 1934 in Gurdaspur, Punjab. Vijay’s elder brother Chetan Anand, who made the films ‘Guide’, ‘Teessri Manzil’, ‘Jewel Theif’ and ‘Johny Mera Naam’, was the director-producer and Dev Anand was an actor-director. Together these three brothers made ‘Navketan Films’ and Vijay did most of the films under this banner. Very talented Vijay, who belonged to a good family, was badly broken in the last moments of life and went to the shelter of Osho.
23 year old Vijay Anand directed the film
Vijay Anand, a student of English Literature, directed the first film ‘Nau Do Gyarah’ in 1957 at the age of just 23. Vijay had made the film at the age when the youth understands to learn the nuances of the film. The sharpness of this legend filmmaker is estimated from the fact that within just 40 days, Vijay had completed the shooting of the film along with his brother Dev Anand and Kalpana Karthik. All this was the result of the company of childhood that the understanding about films was developed at such a young age. He himself had told about this in an interview given to the media.
Childhood was spent in the company of famous people of the industry
There was a tremendous passion for dance inside Vijay. In an interview given to the media, Vijay Anand had told that ‘I had spent childhood with people like Zohra Sehgal, Kameshwar Sehgal, Mohan Sehgal and Guru Dutt. Balraj and Damayanti Sahni were almost staying in our house. My brother Chetan brought him to Bombay and stayed with us until he found a place to live. Zohra and Kameshwar started a dance school in our Pali Hill home.
Vijay Anand got into controversy after marrying niece
The way Vijay Anand surprised everyone by making a film at a young age, in the same way he got into controversy after marrying a younger niece of his own. Was married to Sushma Anand, they have a son Vaibhav Anand.
Vijay Anand had reached the shelter of Osho, a victim of depression.
When Vijay Anand, who gave all the great films to the Hindi cine world, was at the heights, he became a victim of depression badly. To get rid of this tension, Vijay Acharya went to the shelter of Rajneesh. The actor, who was a follower of Osho, may have found comfort from the spiritual journey, but Vijay died of a heart attack on 23 February 2004.
