in which we look at the little things that make for the big picturevijay anands favourite film both as an actor and as a director was tere mere sapne it was inspired by aj cronins novel the citadel on medical ethics laying the foundation for the publicly funded national health service nhs in uk a decade later in 38 a year after it was published it was adapted as a film featuring robert donat rosalind russell ralph richardson and rex harrison read lesser known facts about dev anand it was also the subject for many tv shows in the uk us and italy and in india inspired films in three languages tere mere sapne hindi 71 jiban saikate bengali 72 and madhura swapnam telugu 82 the novel revolved around the moral degeneration of an idealistic doctor in scotland as he moves from philanthropic research to a private practice and easy money slowly drifting away from his school teacher wife till a patient dies and he is accused of murderthat brings about a change of heart and a forceful argument in court ensures hes not struck off the medical register for latest bollywood updates follow us on twitter toientertain goldie as vijay anand was fondly called believed that medical malpractices in india were not all that different from that in scotland having been a case study himself for almost a decade after being diagnosed with a kidney stone two doctors fought over my commission and the operation was finally performed by a new surgeon who had been given a break to operate on dev anands brother hed revealed bitterly dev essayed the role of the protagonist dr anand kumar with mumtaz as his wife nishagoldie in a cameo played drjagannath kothari a village obstetrician who disillusioned by the corruption in medical circles takes to drinking mohan churiwala a close associate of dev anands remembers a cousin of the brothers dr avinash chadda a renowned surgeon whod wanted to relocate to india but frustrated by his experiences of what he saw here returned to uk and settled there for his cameo goldie read up as many books as he could so every action during the operations was medically correct and since his busy actor brother couldnt spare as much time on prep he got a doctor to supervise his scenes tere mere sapne was perfect in every way he later exulted having got permission to shoot the climax where dr anand is battling to save his wife and child in the operation theatre of a real hospital when a caesarean delivery was underway in a departure from the novel hed introduced a new character maltimala a leading bollywood actress whose growing closeness to dr anand creates a rift between him and his wife for the latest in bollywood news like us on facebook toientertain that track was inspired by vyjayanthimala and dr balis romance which was common knowledge in the industry hed started visiting her on the sets of sangam