Guddi

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Guddi (Devnagari: गुड्डी, Nastaliq: گڈی) 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 school girl 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 in the movie. Many popular Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Om Prakash and Pran give a guest appearance as themselves in the movie. The film became a "big city hit" and did "above average" business everywhere else.[2] The film was later remade into a hit Tamil film Cinema Paithiyam (1976) starring Jayachitra and Kamal Haasan.[3]

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Guddi(Jaya Bachchcan) is a full of life girl studying in school and living with her father,brother and brother's wife.Guddi has an ideal in her life who is none other than film star Dharmendra.No body knows this until she visits Mumbai and stays with uncle(Uttpal Dutt), Navin is the borther of her sister inlaw(sumita Sanyal).Guddi discloses to Navin that she is in love with Dharmendra. Unknown to her Navin is in love with Guddi. He discusses the matter with his uncle(Uttpal Dutt)who is a psychiatrist and understands the matter. Utpal Dutt then meets Dharmendra and requests him to help them. From next day to several weeks Guddi visits film sets mostly of Dharmendra's movies n finds that the world and the person fascinated her were not the same she is visiting and is rather attracted towards Navin and they then decide to get married

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Producer Hrishikesh Mukherjee N C Sippy

Director Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Star Cast Dharmendra...... Himself

Jaya Bachchan...... Kusum, 'Guddi'

Vijay Sharma...... Kishan

Sumita Sanyal...... Uma, Bhabhi

A K Hangal...... Kusum's father (as Hangal)

Keshto Mukherjee...... Kader Bhai (controller of production)

Asrani...... Kundan

Utpal Dutt...... Prof. S. Gupta, Mamaji

Ashok Kumar...... himself

Amitabh Bachchan...... himself

Lalita Kumari...... Head Teacher

Samit Bhanja...... Navin

Bhagwan

Biswajeet...... himself

Rajesh Khanna...... himself

Vinod Khanna...... special appearance

Dilip Kumar...... himself

Naveen Nischol...... himself

Omprakash...... himself

Pran...... himself

Shatrughan Sinha...... himself

Vimmi...... himself

Aarti...... Tara (as Arti)

Shiraz

Mehar Banu

Chandra

Husn Banu

Surinder Kaur

Anwari

David...... Himself

Hrishikesh Mukherjee...... Himself

Shashikala...... Herself

Mala Sinha...... Herself

Deven Verma...... Himself

Cassettes and CD's on Saregama-HMV

Singers Vani Jairam

Lyricist Gulzar

Music Director Vasant Desai Shankarsinh Raghuwanshi Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal

Executive / Associate / Co-Producer Romu Sippy

Cinematography Jaywant Pathare

Screenplay Hrishikesh Mukherjee Gulzar

Dialogue Gulzar

Story / Writer Gulzar

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