Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Dev Anand | ... | Raju | |
Waheeda Rehman | ... | Rosie Marco / Nalini | |
Leela Chitnis | ... | Raju's Mother | |
Anwar Hussain | ... | Ghaffoor | |
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Ulhas | ... | Raju's Uncle (Mamaji) |
Gajanan Jagirdar | ... | Bhola (as Jagirdar) | |
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Rashid Khan | ... | Joseph |
Kishore Sahu | ... | Marco | |
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Praveen Paul | ... | Bhola's Wife (as Pravin Paul) |
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Mridula Rani | ... | Laxmibai (as Mirdula Rani) |
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Purnima | ||
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Sheela R. | ... | (as Ellen Sheela R.) |
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Krishan Dhawan | ... | Inspector Girdhari |
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Prem Sagar | ||
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Narbada Shankar | ... | (as Nerbada Shankar) |
After being released from prison for Forgery and Theft, multi-linguist Raju (Dev Anand) reflects on his life as a Guide; his meeting with the daughter of a prostitute, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who was unhappily married to Marco (Kishore Sahu) and wants to take up acting and dancing as a career. Rosie separates and moves in with Raju and his mother (Leela Chitnis). They both re-locate and with Raju's encouragement, she succeeds in an acting and dancing career resulting in both becoming very wealthy. He then succumbs to gambling and alcohol and forges Rosie's signature. He is arrested, tried in court, found guilty and imprisoned. Now discharged from prison, he changes his mind about returning home to his mother and decides to go elsewhere and start afresh - a decision that will alter his life and way of thinking forever. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
When I travelled from India to US this was the only Hindi movie DVD that I carried with me. To me this is a "complete movie", as a movie should be. It entertains me by taking me through a wide gamut of emotions, it stimulates me spiritually and philosophically (indian faith, western existentialism are all there) and it is technically brilliant.
Each scene seems to be individually composed and you can see the effort that director vijay anand and his crew put in. Raju speaks to us in one of the scenes "there is not much difference between me and you". And as he speaks this you see the statue of Krishna in the background and Raju's index finger stretched as if holding a sudarshan chakra. Brilliant!!! Subtle things like these that you have to watch out for. The name "Guide" itself conveys a different meaning at different times in the movie; a railway guide, a personal guide and then a spiritual guide.
It is very sad that a brilliant director like Vijay Anand could never come out of the shadows of Navketan and despite giving us some of the most important and influential movies of our times was ignored. People in west respect their classics and make an effort that Billy Wilder, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Chaplin etc. are not forgotten. New directors openly admit how much they have been influenced by these people. But in India, what is not on MTV is not worth remembering. In another 10 years no one will remember Vijay Anand.