Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

rahulmuli 52 years down the line & yet Guide still is fresh & relevant. Dev Anand was never given credit for his acting (perhaps people at that time were fond of theatrical acting of Dilip Kumar). However you have to see Guide (& other B & W movies before Guide) to realize how good an actor he was! In the song Waha kaun hai tera, when coins are thrown at him the expression of self deprecation given by him is one such example. Goldie's direction & treatment to the subject which was far ahead of its time is unparalleled.Finally what can be said about Sachinda's compositions. Surely this is the only movie all the songs of which will be as fresh 100 years from now as they are today.

Aparna Gangopadhyay A tourist guide (Raju) helps a courtesan cum prostitute's daughter (later a wife of an archaeologist) Rosie, to make it big as a stage dancer.Raju breaks off all relations from his aged mother, friends from childhood – in fact his entire village – just to make Rosie achieve her dreams of dancing on stage.Of course Rosie was beautiful to look at too – the prostitutes are very clever – they only let the sperm of a good looking client to fertilize their ovum during the 'fertile' period of the month. This was they ensure the birth of good looking offsprings – for in their world – only physical beauty is important – they don't need good heart or nice behaviour – because they get paid for physical appeal only – poor things! So this village bred – more or less illiterate Raju – gets to sleep with a pretty female…who was also kind of experienced in 'sex' – remember she was married with an aged khadoos – she surely wasn't a virgin! No no – explicit 'love-making' scenes are not shown between Raju and Rosie in the film – just a slight hint – for it was shot in the 1960's – when we, the Indians, were very back-dated and hypocrites – and believed that skin flicks and 'humping scenes' should not be included in regular family films..in blue-films it was okay I guess!(not sure – was not born then…so cannot tell much about the hippy culture) Anyways, Rosie did not take much time to become famous. Most Indian males go crazy when they see a beautiful female jumping high & low wearing transparent thingies. She reached the big stage because she knew of some Indian classical dance mudras too…otherwise she would have remained a local stage dancer who are watched by drunkards and whistled at….like the present day bar dancers (dance balas) basically! Raju, who was born and brought up in dire poverty, was enjoying the sudden downpour of wealth – he soon became a drunkard and a gambler – so clichéd huh! Then he was jailed for forgery – then he was mistaken for a saint by illiterate villagers, then he died. End of story! Why are people so sympathetic towards this Raju guide is what I fail to understand! Guess what..this story – Upanayas – was included in the Hindi syllabus of Class XI in Kendriya Vidyalaya!! – no…not in my session..or else I would have barbarically raped it!! Lol!

Jagdip Singh I don't normally write reviews, in fact this is my first ever, I am forced to express my emotions about this movie. Not a movie expert, I just enjoy what ever impacts me in a personal way. The Guide is a story which effects all of lifes, we tend to feel like Raju many times in our lives. As humans we are in a struggle to succeed, and develop as individuals. In this race we look for support of our loved ones who walk the road with us. This is the very pure and fundamental setting of the movie guide, where a guide "traveller" is traveling through different phases of his life. He finds his love and becomes rich and successful, but.. things don't stay the same. We experience the same in our lives. when our partner suddenly starts to change and rifts start to occur in relationships. The part in the movie where Raju is getting drunk and he starts to sing, thats a feeling of every man during that phase of life. There is so much to say about this movie. The music, the location, the characters, everything is so perfect. One of the greatest movies in Indian Cinema History.

shafatqadri My all time fav movie. Reviewing a classic gives you a thrill and is an extremely challenging rather than reviewing some crap movie which are churned out today.Navketan International have made some of the great movies like Jewel Thief,Jhonny Mera Naam, Hum Dono, Kala Bazar . But Guide is one of the biggest and most memorable movies under their banner. Based on R.K. Narayan's novel 'The Guide', the film is immortalized by director Vijay Anand's bold, unconventional strokes. Who would have dared to show a man and woman living together outside the sanctity of a marriage way back in the 1960s? The movie revolves round Raju (Dev Anand), once a successful tourist guide who hesitates to return to his hometown of Udaipur after his release from jail and decides to search for his fortunes elsewhere. He ends up in a remote village temple wearing over his threadbare clothes a saffron scarf which had once belonged to some passing mendicant and finds himself suddenly elevated to the position of a holy man. Raju's mother and Rosie reach there and watch helplessly as Raju slowly drifts towards death due to the fasting.The film is enhanced richly by the two central performances. Dev Anand gives perhaps his best shaded performance in the title role, playing him perfectly with just the right amount of grey and his perfectly nuanced performance won him his second Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Good as Dev Anand is, however, the life and soul of Guide is undoubtedly Waheeda Rehman. It was a daring role to play in those times, of a woman who leaves her stifling impotent husband and lives with her lover, a guide who helps her in her ambitions to become a famous dancer. Waheeda was in fact told she was committing professional suicide taking on this role.The other big star of Guide was its musical score by S.D. Burman. The film represents perhaps Burman Dada's greatest work and he is aided tremendously by Shailendra's lyrics and the flawless rendering of the songs by Mohd. Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar and himself.Initially Guide had a tough time being sold because of its so called bold theme but thanks to Production Controller Yash Johar's perseverance, the film was finally sold and released to great critical acclaim and was a big commercial success. R.K. Narayan was most unhappy with the final film as he felt it deviated too much from his novel. One of the major changes that Vijay Anand did was to change the setting of the film from Malgudi to Udaipur and while this did give the film an exotic, grand visual look, admittedly perhaps this took away from the ambiance of the small town of Narayan's novel. The ending too of the film was significantly different from that of the novel. But then Vijay Anand has always maintained that he was never interested in merely copying any work of art from one medium to another unless there was scope for value addition and to be fair to him, he has made Guide into a rich and unforgettable cinematic experience.Guide was made in two versions simultaneously- an English version in collaboration with Pearl S Buck and directed by Ted Danielewski to introduce Dev Anand to western audiences and of course the Hindi version directed by Dev Anand's younger brother, Vijay Anand. The English version said to be closer to the novel and in spite of a nude scene using a duplicate instead of Waheeda Rehman, flopped miserably but the Hindi version remains a classic to this day.