Movie Review: Guide – a timeless classic
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| Artists: Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman |
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| Year: 1965 |
Guide produced and acted by Devanand is an outstanding movie. It conveys an universal message valid for all time. Every time you look at it you feel emotional and a new message is felt. Devanand and Waheeda belong to a conservative, orthodox superstitious society. Raju is a guide and is single. Rosy is emotional and looks for love. Man or a woman is a love bird. Rosy looks for love, pines for a deep passion which is absent from Marco. Marco is unemotional and careless in expressing love. As a result Rosy is drawn towards anyone who reciprocates and is available. This is a great lesson. No matter how intellectual you are you must love. Without love man is dead. This message is conveyed various times in the movie.
Every time you look at the movie you are moved .the movie is 35 years old and still new when you look at it. Rosy is very emotional. She pleads with her husband for love. Marcos is outrageous and slaps Rosy. He doesn’t care for her. So she begins to love Raju, the guide.
When a woman is Spartan like thinker she still loves but she calls it Rakhee love. Once she calls it safe love she begins loving. Its all non sense. When there is true love with her husband she will never need a guide or a Rakhee brother. She loves her children with all her heart until they leave her and create a vacuum in her life. Life is mysterious.
Music is wonderful in the movie. A bell rings when you hear the music. Love with music is eternal. However real bonds of nature – husband/wife, own brother and sister, your own children – are lasting. Any other love is fragile. It has to ultimately break. Woman is weak at heart. No matter how many times Marcos disowned her she is willing to go back to him.
The ending is appropriate to the present drought conditions… You cannot ignore the movie. No matter what you are doing your heart is warmed up and the movie is breathtakingly beautiful. Ending of the movie is very touching. Swamiji and rain and fasting are very realistic. It could be a coincidence yet they believed Swamiji created the rain. The death of Swamiji gave a surprisingly magical effect to the movie.
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Hi,
Great review…
Please post more reviews of “Old” classics.
Cheers,