[3] He remained a member of Indian National Congress in the 1930s, subsequently worked for the BBC and taught at the Doon School in Dehradun for a while, before going to Bombay to sell a film script.

[4] In the early 1940s, while he was teaching history, he wrote a film script on king Ashoka, which he showed to the director Phani Majumdar in Bombay.

[8] By the early 1950s, he and his younger brother Dev Anand had set up Navketan Productions in Bombay present day Mumbai.

[9] Chetan Anand started his own production company called Himalaya films and teamed up with the photographer Jal Mistry, music director Madan Mohan, lyrics writer Kaifi Azmi and the actress Priya Rajvansh.

Together, they made some of most memorable and unique films in Hindi cinema like Haqeeqat, Heer Raanjha, Hanste Zakhm and Hindustan Ki Kasam.

[citation needed] Apart from 17 feature films, he is also known for the acclaimed television serial, Param Veer Chakra, which was abroadcast by Doordarshan in 1988.

Her mother, Ila Chatterji, was a first cousin of Mona Singha, better known as Kalpana Kartik, wife of Chetan's younger brother Dev Anand.

[10] Chetan Anand and Uma quickly became the parents of two sons, Ketan and Vivek, but they separated within a few years and she became the companion of Ebrahim Alkazi, a Muslim theatre professional.

In the 1960s, many years after being estranged from his wife, Chetan Anand fell in love with Priya Rajvansh, who had made her debut as heroine of his film Haqeeqat.

This included the right of lifelong residence in his sprawling beachfront bungalow in Ruia Park, Juhu, Mumbai, where real estate is among the most expensive in India.