Author Govind Sharma is a medical doctor who retired from the Indian Administrative Service on February 29, 2016. After writing three works of fiction, Anant Dot Com (Partridge, February 2016), State vs Amrit Kumar (Notion Press, October 2016), and The Break-Up Clinic, A Novel (Notion Press, May 2017), he decided to write a non-fiction book on his favourite movie star, Dev Anand.