What is romance to you?
Romance is taking life as it comes. A great book, a good song, a beautiful girl, making a movie, that's romance...
Do you have any regrets in life?
I wish I could play a musical instrument -- a piano or a guitar... Otherwise, I have no regrets. Life is too short for that.
To what extent is the Hum Dono song Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya... a part of your own philosophy?
Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya; har fikr ko dhooien mein udata chala gaya... That is my life's philosophy, that is what the book is about.
Photograph: Meera Gandhi with Dev Anand.
Also read: Dev Anand, 85