Vijay Anand's classic movie based on R K Narayan's novel Guide (1965) is the
story of a young Guide (1965) Raju (Dev Anand). Raju has just been released from
jail and wishing to make a clean break with the past, he wanders till one day
tired and hungry he rests in a remote temple in the outskirts of a village. The
innocent villagers mistake him for a holy man. The temple soon becomes his
house, and the villagers his disciples, and he helps them in his own way by
giving them advice in their practical affairs and by entertaining them with
mythological stories that he had heard in his childhood from his mother.
