But who would play his sister? Indian actors are notoriously shy of playing sisters, as it puts them in a rut.
Getting a heroine for the male protagonist’s (his) love interest was easy-Mumtaz was the reigning queen and he signed her up right away.
But no, she had no intention of joining the film business.Ĭonvinced that there was a film in this intriguing story, Anand dashed off a script, rushed to Mumbai and set about finding someone to play Jasbir aka Janice. Her name was Jasbir but everyone knew her as Janice. She met him at his hotel and told her story: She had left Canada after her immigrant parents had divorced and had joined a group of hippies, eventually finding her way to the eastern Shangri-La. Among them was one solitary brown face, a young girl who intrigued the actor enough for him to make enquiries. High: Zeenat Aman and Dev Anand in Hare Rama Hare Krishna.ĭuring one of his periodic visits to Kathmandu, Anand was taken to a hippie commune where he saw groups of unwashed, underdressed young men and women, all of them white, passing around chillums and swaying to music.
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