ABSTRACT
The news that matinee hero Dev Anand died in London on December 3, 2011 of cardiac arrest saddened his fans all over the world. A large number among them are Pakistanis. Dev Anand was born on September 26, 1923, not in Lahore, but less than 50 miles from it. His ancestral village, Gharota, was in tehsil (now district) Pathankot, district Gurdaspur, but he grew up in Gurdaspur where his father maintained a successful practice at the district courts.
