Guddi
Guddi Movie Poster
Directed by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Starring	Dharmendra Jaya Bhaduri
Music by	Vasant Desai
Cinematography	Dwarka Divecha
Release date(s)	15 August 1971
Running time	188 min / India: 204 minutes (director's cut) / USA: 162 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Guddi (Devanagari: गुड्डी) is a 1971 film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and written by Gulzar. It starred Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan and Utpal Dutt. It is Jaya Bachchan (née Bhaduri)'s career-making film in which she plays a schoolgirl obsessed with the actor Dharmendra, who plays himself. She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress, the only nomination for the film.^[1] Utpal Dutt also has a starring role. Many popular Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Om Prakash and Pran gave guest appearances as themselves. The film became a "big city hit" and did "above average" business everywhere else.^[2] It was later remade in Tamil as Cinema Paithiyam (1975) starring Jayachitra and Kamal Haasan.^[3]

Plot [edit]

Kusum (aka Guddi) (Jaya Bachchan) is a spunky and carefree schoolgirl who lives with her father (A. K. Hangal), brother and sister-in-law (Sumita Sanyal). Guddi has a crush on film star Dharmendra, who plays himself. Nobody knows the extent of her crush until she visits Bombay, where her sister-in-law's brother, Navin (played by Bengali film actor Samit Bhanja), develops a crush on her. Guddi discloses to Navin that she is in love with Dharmendra. In an attempt to win Guddi's heart, Navin discusses the matter with his uncle (Utpal Dutt), who just happens to know Dharmendra. With Dharmendra's help, they try to show Guddi the difference between the real world and the reel world. Guddi changes and accepts that nothing is true in the reel world. The film ends with Guddi agreeing to marry Navin.

Cast [edit]

• Dharmendra - Himself
• Jaya Bhaduri - Guddi
• Sumita Sanyal - Bhabhi
• Utpal Dutt - Professor Gupta
• Vijay Sharma - Kishan
• Samit Bhanja - Navin (as Samit)
• A. K. Hangal - Guddi's father (as Hangal)
• Asrani - Kundan
• Aarti - Tara (as Arti)
• Keshto Mukherjee - Kader Bhai
• Lalita Kumari - Teacher

Crew [edit]

• Director - Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• Story - Gulzar
• Screenplay - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, D. N. Mukherjee
• Dialogue - Gulzar
• Editor - Das Dhaimade
• Cinematographer - Jaywant Pathare
• Art Director - Ajit Banerjee
• Producers - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy
• Executive Producer - Romu N. Sippy
• Production Executives - T. S. Ganesh, K. G. Nair
• Associate Director - Anil Ghosh
• Assistant Directors - Saroj Banerjee, Susheela Kamat, Nitin Mukesh
• Assistant Art Directors - Ibrahim Mamoo, Ram Gopal Sharma
• Assistant Cameramen - Prakash Anandkar, Shashikant Kabre, G. D. Mushtaq
• Assistant Editors - Khan Zaman Khan, Shridhar Mishra, J. F. H. Van der Auwera (color consultant)
• Wardrobe - M. R. Bhutkar, Mohan Pardesi
• Music Director - Vasant Desai
• Music Assistant - Vasant Achrekar, Sebastian D'Souza
• Lyricist - Gulzar
• Playback Singer - Vani Jairam

Cameos [edit]

Guddi provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the movie industry in Bombay during the late 1960s and early 1970s and featured cameos from a lot of the major actors and industry figures at that time including:

• Amitabh Bachchan
• Biswajeet
• Rajesh Khanna
• Vinod Khanna
• Ashok Kumar
• Dilip Kumar
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• Naveen Nischol
• Om Prakash
• Pran
• Shashikala
• Mala Sinha
• Shatrughan Sinha
• Deven Verma
• Vimmi

Soundtrack [edit]

The song "Bole Re Papihara" was listed at #21 on Binaca Geetmala annual list 1972.

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Guddi at the Internet Movie Database
• "Hrishikesh Mukherjee's best films": Guddi (1971), rediff.com, 28 August 2006. Retrieved 2 October 2009.

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