Guddi 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. 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. The film was later remade into a hit Tamil film Cinema Paithiyam (1976) starring Jayachitra and Kamal Haasan.
Cameos
Guddi provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the movie industry in Bombay during the late 1960s and early 1970s and featured cameos from a lot of the major actors and industry figures at that time including:
Amitabh Bachchan
Biswajeet
Rajesh Khanna
Vinod Khanna
Ashok Kumar
Dilip Kumar
