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Dev Anand excited ahead of Guide's Cannes screening


Cannes, May 18 (PTI) Forty-two years ago he made classic 'Guide' which will be screened on Tuesday at the Cannes film festival and 84-year-old Dev Anand's excitement at this recognition is palpable.
Ever-energetic Dev Anand drove straight from the airport to the sprawling Villa Paradisiaque, where Hinduja brothers hosted a lunch for Indian celebrities and others attending the festival.

The Hindujas' association with the actor and 'Guide' goes back all the way to the time when the film was released, he said adding that Srichand P Hinduja was the man who first distributed the movie.

"It is wonderful that a film made 42 years ago has found some resonance here today. When I had made it, people thought I had gone mad and was committing professional hara-kiri," Dev Anand said, standing on the lawns overlooking the city of Cannes and its stunning waterfront.

The actor-director-producer, who was the Guest of Honour at the lunch yesterday, spoke of how honoured he was that his 1966 superhit 'Guide' had been included in the Cannes Classics section. The print of 'Guide' to be screened in Cannes on Tuesday is a spanking new one and it has been upgraded to the wide-screen format with six-track digital Dolby sound.

"The greatest high in the act of film-making comes when your point of view synchronises with the world's reactions and a hit is born," Dev Anand said. "It is this excitement and anticipation that keeps a film-maker going." "Your mind must stay young. The body may age, but it always ends up doing the mind's bidding," the actor told the gathering. PTI


VERY GOOD DEV ANAND JI

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This is one rare instance when it feels that one is reading the book. Such is GUIDE the masterpiece of Indian cinema and certainly the best film of Dev Anand.