Evergreen actor Dev Anand has started work on colouring his last black and white film Hum Dono that released in 1961.

Says the evergreen actor, “Hum Dono is a timeless classic. It is a recognized film and everybody knows about it. It is being coloured to recreate the magic.”

Hum Dono which was one of Dev Anand’s most successful films was also nominated in the Berlin Film Festival in 1962. It is the only film where Dev Anand plays a double role.

Under his Navketan Films banner, Dev Anand along with Goldstone Media Ltd. has already started working on the colourization process. Goldstone Media Ltd. is a Hyderabad based company into the colorization business for the past 5-6 years.

The technicians behind this refurbished film claim that the coloured version of Hum Dono will be much superior to Mughal-e-Azam that was coloured in 2004 and Naya Daur which will be released soon. They are using enhanced technologies, reportedly the best in world today, to get optimum output. While the earlier films that were coloured only had around 16 to 32 colours in a frame, the technology used in Hum Dono will enable them to virtually align 65000 shades of colours in one single frame.

So confident are the makers that they will soon be giving out a demo to the media of a small portion of the film that they have already coloured by now. Dev Anand is equally positive and says, “Goldstone technicians know what they are doing. So they will handle any problem whatsoever”.