Click to play videoCannes: Forty two-years-after it was released, the film Guide was screened at the Cannes film festival.The film has been shortlisted in the classic section.
The film was screened on day seven of the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
The evergreen Dev Anand himself was present at the screening and it was a trip down memory lane for the Bollywood veteran.
"People called me mad for making Guide at the time. They also thought I made a wrong decision by playing a saint who dies in the end at a point in my career when I was a romantic star. People said the film will go down the drain and I will lose everything from my pocket," says Anand.
Guide was one of the finest films made by Vijay Anand and was based on a book by RK Narayan.
"When I decided to make Guide, I called Mr RK Narayan from California. I had never met him. He asked if I was the famous film star Dev Anand, and I said yes. He was very happy to hear my voice. I told him i wanted to make his book into a film and that I want to play the guide. He was very glad to hear that," Anand recalls.
Released in 1965, Guide had Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman as its leading star cast.
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