Takes Two To Tango

This tribute to the Anand brothers Dev and Vijay combines unbridled fandom with detailed film analysis

- Jai Arjun Singh

A large number of Indian cinema publications are anecdote-driven or based on salacious behind-the-scenes stories. Occasionally, though, a book is written with such care and attention to detail that it makes you want to drop everything and head straight to the films being discussed—so you can savour what the author saw in them, or disagree with her, or both at the same time. Tanuja Chaturvedi’s Hum Dono—a “guru-dakshina” for Vijay (also known as Goldie) and Dev Anand and the classics they made together—is in this category.