The evergreen star of Hindi cinema Dev Anand, who has romanced numerous beautiful women on the screen, has rarely been heard of confessing about his real life love for his co-star Suraiya.

Dev Anand has now admitted to have loved her and has made a special mention of this in his forthcoming autobiography titled Romancing With Life.

“Yes. I loved Suraiya. I am not shying away from this fact. I want to tell everything what happened during those days in my autobiography. It was a very important chapter of my life as I was growing. I was young and in love for the first time,” Dev Anand said. With his eyes lit up and face glowing while speaking about his first love, who died single, Dev Anand said, “She was a big star. I was new. But I was also strong and sophisticated. I was educated, confident and was aware that I was going somewhere in life.”

Dev Anand has numerous fond memories of his first love. One incident in particular is etched in his memory. “During the shooting of a song sequence in a lake, we were sitting on a boat, and she slipped. I jumped into the water to save her from drowning,” According to Dev Anand.

In retrospection, the actor thinks the couple were destined to get separated.

“It is all in the book. Whatever has been said about my relationship with Suraiya is false. Readers will get the true picture after reading it,” the actor said. Speaking from his own experience he said that emotions were important in life as it made one more matured. But career was also important to grow in life.

“One has to be on top. It has to be there on your mind. But for that one needs to make lot of sacrifices. Someday you have to break away from your loved ones against your wishes. You will be heart broken. But you have to bear the sorrow to grow and belong to the world,” According to Dev Anand.