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Pasang Sherpa
Guide
Directed by : Vijay Anand
Produced by : Dev Anand
Written by : Vijay Anand ( From R.K. Narayan’s Novel)
Starring : Dev Anand (Raju)
Waheeda Rehman(Rosie)
Kishore Sahu (Marco)
Music by : S.D. Burman
Cinematography : Fali Mistry
Release Date : 02/06/1965
Running Time : 183 min.
“Guide”, a Hindi movie released in 1965 is a collaboration of two brothers Dev Anand and Vijay Anand in the Bollywood industry. It is one unforgettable movie where we see the new kind of taste in Bollywood movies. The movie is based on a novel by R.K. Narayan. The major theme throughout the movie was Raju giving guidance to the people and becoming the part of everybody who he guides. We also find a strange love story in the movie, the romance of Raju with Rosie, a married woman. Raju seems never to have achieved anything for himself in life; he is always trying to help or guide people trying to make their lives better. The story overall is tragic. The movie does not really focus on patriotism towards the country, but it is more concerned with building community.
The movie starts with Raju getting out of jail. He is going back home, but he does not find a reason to go back, and story begins with a flashback. Raju is a famous guide in the town whom everybody knows. One day Rosie the daughter of a courtesan and her husband, Marco, comes to the town. Marco is a wealthy archeologist. He is more interested in his work than his wife. While Marco is busy with his work, Raju takes Rosie on a tour and discovers her talent and the reason why she was married to Marco. Rosie explains to Raju how dancing is not acceptable to Marco, and that is why she had to quit. Raju convinces her that she should not quit what she enjoys. When Rosie goes to visit Marco in the cave, she sees that he is having an affair with a different girl. Then Rosie leaves Marco and decides to continue doing what she like but she has nowhere to go. Raju takes her in and they fall in, love with each other.
When Rosie moves in with Raju, everybody thinks that she is a prostitute as she dances in his house. Raju gets in lots of trouble trying to defend her from people gossiping about her. It gets so bad that Raju’s mother leaves him. Since Raju is not letting Rosie go, he loses everything his friends and business. Then Rosie changes her name to Nalina, and Raju guide Nalina to her successful career. But Raju starts gambling and drinking. One day Marco shows up from nowhere and tries to get Rosie back. Then he has his agent ask Rosie to release some jewelry, which is in a safe deposit box. Out of jealousy Raju forges Rosie’s name to release the jewelry, which will eventually tear them apart. And Raju is sent to jail. When he gets out of Jail, he goes to this village and he suffers from hunger and poverty in rags. One morning a farmer finds him under an orange shawl and thinks that he is a holy man. Bhola the Farmer tells him that his sister refuses to marry and it is his worst serious problem. Raju impress the girl and gets her ready to marry, so then people thinks he is a swami. People bring food for him and listen to his words. He makes lots of things possible in that village, and tells them a story about the holy man who fasted for twelve days, which resulted in rain to end the drought.
Then drought actually hits the village, and due to a miscommunication a village fool interprets that Raju is going to fast for twelve days to end the drought that they are facing. He then gets in the trap and opposes the idea, but decides to fast for the sake of the village. With his popularity thousands of people come to see him and get his blessing. Then there he finds her mother as she came to get his blessing, Rosie comes to visit him and his friend. But the very random scene when this American journalist gets really surprised when Raju speaks in English. Then she asks him, “ Have you ever fallen in love?” Then it actually rains, and people are happy but the time has come for Raju to leave.
The movie overall is good, the dance scenes were different than in the movies shown earlier. They were dancing in the forest, in the mountain, etc. While Nalini was dancing, the stage was covered with statues of gods and goddesses. The movie brings the new flavor to the Bollywood industry. The movie is worth seeing again.
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