बॉलीवुड का वो HIT डायरेक्टर, शादीशुदा होकर सगी भांजी पर आया दिल, फिर कर डाली शादी, तोड़े हिंदू रीति-रिवाज
This is the director who made his brother a superstar. Made many great films in the 70-80s. There were many hits and many were included in the list of Cult. Went to know from films, but got into the headlines in personal life, when married, he was heartbroken with a niece and got married another by cheating Hindu customs.
There is a special relationship with Devanand
This is none other than ‘Guide’, ‘Jewel Thef’, ‘Johnny Mera Naam’, ‘Kora Paper’, Vijay Anand, brother of Devanand, who gave superhit films. These are the directors called ‘Director with Golden Touch’. Vijay Anand was born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, when his elder brothers Devanand and Chetan Anand had earned a big name in the industry. When Vijay Anand was 7 years old, his mother died. After the mother left, his father and siblings brought him up and raised him. His hair was of golden color and so his father used to call him ‘Goldie Locks’. That’s why people also know him by the name of Goldie Anand.
Love of cinema increased during college
After the mother’s death, Vijay Anand came to Mumbai with his sisters and started living with brother Devanand. He completed his studies from Mumbai. During college, his trend towards drama started increasing and then he started writing plays. During college days, he also started writing scripts of films, because he was sure that his future is also in films like brothers. Devanand and Chetan Anand used to run Navketan Production House and wanted to work in this production house. His brother Devanand, who made Vijay Anand a director.
Vijay Anand married his elder sister’s daughter to another. Photo courtesy-@IMDB
Who was Vijay Anand’s first wife?
Vijay Anand first married Lavalin Thadani. At that time Vijay was making a bold romantic film ‘Jaan Hazir Hai’ with Billin Premnath’s son Prem Kishan and Shekhar Kapoor. Lavalin was in the lead role. Lavalin later fell in love with Vijay. Both of them started going to Osho Rajneesh’s Pune Ashram. It was Lavalin who proposed marriage to Vijay and left the lead road of Jaan Hajir Hai.
Second marriage to elder sister’s daughter
In 1978, Vijay Anand put all the rules and customs of Indian society during the shooting of the film ‘Ram Balaram’ and got married to his elder sister’s daughter i.e. Sagi niece Sushma Kohli. Till then he was not divorced from Lavalin Thadani. There was a lot of fierce in his family about this marriage. However, now both are not in this world. Both of them had a son Vaibhav who is associated with the film industry.
When the first wife expressed the desire to work in films
On the other hand, Lavalin had understood that Vijay is against working in his films. After some time, Lavalin told Vijay’s desire to work in films. Vijay was upset with this. After this, both were divorced.
Vijay Anand was very shy in real life
Sushma Kohli gave an interview in 2018. In this conversation, he told that husband Vijay Anand was very shy in real life. Sushma said, ‘He was a very calm person. Could never get angry, on the contrary, I used to sit sometimes angry. We got married in 1978 during the shooting of ‘Ram-Balaram’. Used to deliberately tease them. Sometimes he used to explain to me and sometimes I used to handle the whole matter.
