Story, Synopsis, Trivia, Dialogues for Guddi (1971)
Kusum (aka Guddi) (Jaya Bachchan) is a spunky and carefree schoolgirl who lives with her father (Ak hangal), brother, and her brother's wife. 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(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 (Uttpal 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.
For the next few weeks, Guddi visits film sets of Dharmendra's movies and finds that the world and the person fascinated her were not the same. She lets go of her crush and finds that she is really in love with Navin
Teenaged and miniskirted Kusum aka Guddi (Bahaduri) has such a crush on Hindi film star Dharmendra that her family arranges for her to meet the star. A rare Hindi film about filmmaking, Guddi appears to want to deconstruct the myth of the star and to show not only how film are made but the poverty, the exploitation and the transitory nature of stardom. What it does do, however, is produce a small parade of stars playing themselves. The films tentative critique of stardom involves drawing a comparison between contemporary screen idols and gods: Kusum adores Dharmendra like the legendary saint poet Meerabai was unconditionlly devoted to Krishna. The film made Bhaduri into a major 70s star as the bouncy teenager with an ear-splitting laugh, repeated, e.g., in Jawani Diwani (1972). [Source: Encl] Check out this page for more updates on Guddi.
