Born in Lahore in 1921 and dying in Bombay in 1997, Chetan Anand was the eldest of the Anand brothers, who included the actor Dev Anand and the director Vijay Anand, and a co-founder of Navketan Films. His debut Neecha Nagar (1946), a social drama influenced by Gorky's The Lower Depths and Soviet cinema, shared the first Grand Prix du Festival at Cannes, the earlier name of the Palme d'Or, and is the only Indian film to have won it. He also made Taxi Driver (1954) and the war film Haqeeqat (1964).
Filmography
- Neecha Nagar (1946)
- Aandhiyan (1952)
- Taxi Driver (1954) (1954)
- Funtoosh (1956)
- Haqeeqat (1964)
- Heer Raanjha (1970)