Hi friends!!
I was thinking from so many days about a topic to write a review on…I watched many new movies, read some books, but somehow did not feel like writing review on those movies or the books…today I want to write a review on an old movie. Many of you must have watched this movie named “Guddi”- a movie by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, main role played by young Jaya Bachchan.
This movie drew my attention long before. Whenever this movie comes on TV, I try not to miss it at any cost. Finally I landed on a place where I am left without a TV. So no more option to catch this movie coming on any channel. So one day, I tried to convince my flat partners to bring the hired CD for this movie and watch it on the laptop. Everybody was reluctant to watch this movie because they never watched it and they wanted to enjoy with some new hindi movie or English movie as the weekends are really precious. They agreed to watch this movie only with one condition that if they did not like this movie then they would change my name…with this risk I made them to watch the movie and thank God…I am still called as Snigdha and not by any other name…hehe…
Story:
This is a very simple story of a girl realizing the difference between the reel life and the real life of movie stars. Guddi, also known as Kusum, is a school going girl and a big fan of film star Dharmendar. She is misguided by the great actor’s movies and thinks that Dharmendar is actually very good at the things he is doing in the movie (like fighting with a dozen of goons all alone, being a badminton champion, a good singer, a good student, and doing such numerous things that it is almost impossible to see a single fellow having such a multi talented personality!!). She starts admiring him and then loves him. He becomes the ideal man of her dreams. She can never think of anybody else replacing that person. Even if she knows that she can’t get married to him, still she thinks that she loves him as Meera loved Sri Krishna…”tyaag hi prem hota hai…”.
Guddi’s sis-in-law’s brother (Naveen) comes into picture now. He is an engineer and he likes Guddi. When their marriage proposal comes to Guddi she tells Naveen that she can’t marry him because she loves somebody else. And she can’t even marry the person she loves and ultimately she can’t marry anybody. Naveen finds it very absurd and childish and he is hurt and because of that starts avoiding Guddi. But Guddi can’t get anything. She thinks that Naveen has accepted her love for the movie star.
To Guddi’s rescue, there enters another character…Mamaji…uncle of Naveen. He comes to know everything from Naveen and he plans to take Guddi on a trip around the real life of a star…how he just does what his director and writer tell him to do. It does not mean that actors don’t have any talent…they have the talent of living characters as if they are the characters themselves. An actor brings out a character in front of the audience and this is not an easy task. He does a lot of hard work with all other team members of a film unit, starting from a simple light man or a spot boy to a director or a producer. People remember the stars only...it is because they are there in front of the people and others are invisible.
Guddi goes to the sets of few movies with mamaji and Naveen and finds out what is the difference between just sitting in a cinema hall & admiring the stars and living with a movie from the start of its making to the end. A movie of just some hours is actually the product of months and months of hard work of so many people. She understands that the actor, who sings so well in a movie, is actually not at all a singer…the instruments he is playing in the movie, are actually dummies. He becomes what the character of a movie demands. Then she sees Naveen…a real man…living his own life and having a simple man’s ideas…still having all the feelings and characters, one true hero should have. May be he is not a good singer, nor so stylish like the movie stars…but he is what a simple man should be. He has his ideas and he implements them with his own plans. Slowly…Guddi starts appreciating what Naveen is. She understands that…may be the movie stars are the ideal men of any girl but each and every girl falls in love with a real man and not a movie character.
My views:
As I told this was just a simple story of a girl. But don’t you think that this story represents our young generation!! Each one of us must have admired those movie stars. But in real life we love a real person who is actually present with us. So this was a journey from a just being a girl to growing up to a mature lady. When you start loving somebody you love everything about that person. You love him/her with his/her past, present and future. Guddi realized her passion for Dharmendar and her love & respect for Naveen. She admired the people who work day and night for making a movie instead of just admiring the star on the screen. She came to know the real and hard life behind the screen. She learnt to respect and accept everybody as he/she is. Everybody is unique and everybody must be unique. Love people for who they are and not for who they act to be…that’s the difference between reel life and real life…
For the cast and performances I can say that Jaya bachchan as Guddi was very natural and Dharmendar was doing his own role...so obviously he was good...mostly these 2 characters along with Mamaji and Naveen were the central characters and they did their best...
so if you are still unaware of this movie then you should watch this one and I promise you wont have any regret of wasting your time for this movie. this is a kind of movie which will make anybody smile with some really good music and songs. If you dont enjoy it then you have always an option of changing my name....hehe...;-) Hope I am still going to be called as Snigdha only...:-)
thanks for your patience reading...
Snigdha...