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‎Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965

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‎Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965

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‎Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965

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‎The English version

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 Of course, this page has the usual details as well.
 [[File: Guide proof 3.jpg|Dev Anand and Waheed Rehman in ''Guide '' (1966) |frame|500px]]
-==Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965==
+==''Guide'' (Hindi) was released in 1966, NOT 1965==
 [[File: Guide proof 1.png|''Guide '' was released in 1966. In Bombay it was premiered on the 15th April 1966 to be precise. '''Proof 1:''' Read Indian Express’ caption of the above photograph: ‘Dev Anand at the gala premiere of Navketan International film 'Guide' held at Maratha Mandir in Bombay chats with Mahrashtra's Minister for Tourism Homi J Taleyakhan. The minister is flanked by Mrs Taleyarkhan on his left and Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik on his right. Also seen in the picture is MD Chaudhury education and Forests minister. (Source: Express archive photo of 15.04.'''1966''')’ [http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/dev-anands-91st-birth-anniversary-unseen-pics-of-the-evergreen-actor/3/] From the archives of The Indian Express|frame|500px]]

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 [[File: Guide proof 3.jpg|Dev Anand and Waheed Rehman in ''Guide '' (1966) |frame|500px]]
 ==Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965==
-[[File: Guide proof 1.png|''Guide '' was released in 1966. In Bombay it was premiered on the 15th April 1966 to be precise. '''Proof 1:''' Read Indian Express’ caption of the above photograph: ‘Dev Anand at the gala premiere of Navketan International film 'Guide' held at Maratha Mandir in Bombay chats with Mahrashtra's Minister for Tourism Homi J Taleyakhan. The minister is flanked by Mrs Taleyarkhan on his left and Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik on his right. Also seen in the picture is MD Chaudhury education and Forests minister. (Source: Express archive photo on 15.04.'''1966''')’ [http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/dev-anands-91st-birth-anniversary-unseen-pics-of-the-evergreen-actor/3/] From the archives of The Indian Express|frame|500px]]
+[[File: Guide proof 1.png|''Guide '' was released in 1966. In Bombay it was premiered on the 15th April 1966 to be precise. '''Proof 1:''' Read Indian Express’ caption of the above photograph: ‘Dev Anand at the gala premiere of Navketan International film 'Guide' held at Maratha Mandir in Bombay chats with Mahrashtra's Minister for Tourism Homi J Taleyakhan. The minister is flanked by Mrs Taleyarkhan on his left and Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik on his right. Also seen in the picture is MD Chaudhury education and Forests minister. (Source: Express archive photo of 15.04.'''1966''')’ [http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/dev-anands-91st-birth-anniversary-unseen-pics-of-the-evergreen-actor/3/] From the archives of The Indian Express|frame|500px]]
 EVERY website—obviously quoting each other-- and many books say that Guide is a 1965 film. In fact it was released in the spring of 1966. Its rival during that time of the year was ''Suraj,'' both for box office collections and for music sales. (Baharon phool barsao from Suraj beat Gaata rahe mera dil from Guide to the top spot on Binaca Geet Mala in 1966. The biggest box office hit of that year, Phool aur Patthar, did not have songs in that league.)

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 ‘Kolkata was Dev saabs favourite city to premiere his films.’
-Of course, it was: for Guide's Bombay premiere took place a week, indeed 9 days, later. Calcutta was (and remains) India's biggest city. In 1966 its economy was also perhaps the biggest, though Bombay had made giant strides by then. It had India's largest number of cinema lovers--certainly of quality cinema. Therefore, if Anand chose Calcutta it was the logical thing to do. However, in his case emotions rather than logic would have prevailed. The Bengalis loved him--partly because he was unabashedly close to S.D. Burman and Kishore Kumar, and used their talents in most of his film--and later the genius of R.D. Burman. Therefore, too, Anand would have preferred to premiere his films in Calcutta,
+Of course, it was: because Guide's Bombay premiere took place a week, indeed 9 days, later. Calcutta was (and remains) India's biggest city. In 1966 its economy was also perhaps the biggest, though Bombay had made giant strides by then. It had India's largest number of cinema lovers--certainly of quality cinema. Therefore, if Anand chose Calcutta it was the logical thing to do. However, in his case emotions rather than logic would have prevailed. The Bengalis loved him--partly because he was unabashedly close to S.D. Burman and Kishore Kumar, and used their talents in most of his film--and later the genius of R.D. Burman. Therefore, too, Anand would have preferred to premiere his films in Calcutta,
-The Indian Express photograph of its '''Bombay premiere''' is dated '15.0bay4.1966.' Hence the photo was taken that day or the previous day.
+The Indian Express photograph of its '''Bombay premiere''' is dated '15.04.1966.' Hence the photo was taken that day or the previous day.
 [[File: guide proof2.png|'''Proof 2:''' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=1967+filmfare+awards&hl=en&biw=911&bih=361&site=imghp&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=_8xfVO6cCtPGuATypoGIAw&ved=0CAUQ_AUoAA&dpr=1.5 A Google search for ‘1967 Filmfare awards’] reveals this. The article that turns up at no.1 is from our favourite website, Wikipedia, and the one at no.3 is from another much-loved website, YouTube. Both entries contradict all other entries on that otherwise indispensable online encyclopædia, and several scholarly as well as  popular books about Filmistan (the name Indpaedia uses for the Hindi-Urdu film industry)|frame|500px]]
 '''Binaca Geet Mala''' has Guide songs in its 1966 list. (See [[Binaca Geet Mala 1966: greatest hits]])

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 [[File: Guide proof 3.jpg|Dev Anand and Waheed Rehman in ''Guide '' (1966) |frame|500px]]
 ==Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965==
-[[File: Guide proof 1.png|''Guide '' was released in 1966, on the 15th April to be precise. '''Proof 1:''' Read Indian Express’ caption of the above photograph: ‘Dev Anand at the gala premiere of Navketan International film 'Guide' held at Maratha Mandir in Bombay chats with Mahrashtra's Minister for Tourism Homi J Taleyakhan. The minister is flanked by Mrs Taleyarkhan on his left and Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik on his right. Also seen in the picture is MD Chaudhury education and Forests minister. (Source: Express archive photo on 15.04.'''1966''')’ [http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/dev-anands-91st-birth-anniversary-unseen-pics-of-the-evergreen-actor/3/] From the archives of The Indian Express|frame|500px]]
+[[File: Guide proof 1.png|''Guide '' was released in 1966. In Bombay it was premiered on the 15th April 1966 to be precise. '''Proof 1:''' Read Indian Express’ caption of the above photograph: ‘Dev Anand at the gala premiere of Navketan International film 'Guide' held at Maratha Mandir in Bombay chats with Mahrashtra's Minister for Tourism Homi J Taleyakhan. The minister is flanked by Mrs Taleyarkhan on his left and Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik on his right. Also seen in the picture is MD Chaudhury education and Forests minister. (Source: Express archive photo on 15.04.'''1966''')’ [http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/dev-anands-91st-birth-anniversary-unseen-pics-of-the-evergreen-actor/3/] From the archives of The Indian Express|frame|500px]]
 EVERY website—obviously quoting each other-- and many books say that Guide is a 1965 film. In fact it was released in the spring of 1966. Its rival during that time of the year was ''Suraj,'' both for box office collections and for music sales. (Baharon phool barsao from Suraj beat Gaata rahe mera dil from Guide to the top spot on Binaca Geet Mala in 1966. The biggest box office hit of that year, Phool aur Patthar, did not have songs in that league.)

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 [[File: Guide proof 1.png|''Guide '' was released in 1966, on the 15th April to be precise. '''Proof 1:''' Read Indian Express’ caption of the above photograph: ‘Dev Anand at the gala premiere of Navketan International film 'Guide' held at Maratha Mandir in Bombay chats with Mahrashtra's Minister for Tourism Homi J Taleyakhan. The minister is flanked by Mrs Taleyarkhan on his left and Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik on his right. Also seen in the picture is MD Chaudhury education and Forests minister. (Source: Express archive photo on 15.04.'''1966''')’ [http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/dev-anands-91st-birth-anniversary-unseen-pics-of-the-evergreen-actor/3/] From the archives of The Indian Express|frame|500px]]
-EVERY website—obviously quoting each other-- and many books say that Guide is a 1965 film. In fact it was released in the spring of 1966. (Baharon phool barsao from Suraj beat Gaata rahe mera dil to the top spot on Binaca Geet Mala in 1966. The biggest box office hit of that year, Phool aur Patthar, did not have songs in that league.)
+EVERY website—obviously quoting each other-- and many books say that Guide is a 1965 film. In fact it was released in the spring of 1966. Its rival during that time of the year was ''Suraj,'' both for box office collections and for music sales. (Baharon phool barsao from Suraj beat Gaata rahe mera dil from Guide to the top spot on Binaca Geet Mala in 1966. The biggest box office hit of that year, Phool aur Patthar, did not have songs in that league.)
-Its '''Calcutta premiere''' was held on April 6, 1966. Its rival during that time of the year was ''Suraj,'' both for box office collections and for music sales.
+Guide's '''Calcutta premiere''' was held on April 6, 1966.
 Proof?

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 This page will also lead you to the only two publicly available video clippings from '''the English version''' of the film.
 [[File: Guide proof 3.jpg|Dev Anand and Waheed Rehman in ''Guide '' (1966) |frame|500px]]
 ==Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965==
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 =Box office performance=
-[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/guide-1965/article1425812.ece SURESH KOHLI, The Hindu] reminds us: 'Like many other movies that were rated classics, Guide was also declared a '''flop''' when it first premiered in New Delhi in the presence of the entire cabinet sans the Prime Minister' [Mrs Indira Gandhi had become PM on 24 January 1966].
+[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/guide-1965/article1425812.ece SURESH KOHLI, The Hindu] reminds us: 'Like many other movies that were rated classics, Guide was also declared a '''flop''' when it first premiered in New Delhi in the presence of the entire cabinet sans the Prime Minister' [Mrs Indira Gandhi had become PM on 24 January 1966]. Dev Anand would later talk about how difficult it had been for him to find buyers for a film that revolved around adultery.
 The film's publicists would, in April and May 1966, place almost-daily advertisements in the major newspapers mentioning how much the film had earned at the box office, especially vis-a-vis its rival of the moment, ''Suraj,'' in order to tell the public that the film was not a flop.

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 The objective of this article is not so much as to talk about the film--about which there are thousands of articles anyway--but '''to set the year of the film's release right,''' even if that means disagreeing with the whole world. Guide was released in 196'''6''', in April 1966 at that, and NOT in 1965, even if the whole world says otherwise (and it does).
 [[File: Guide proof 3.jpg|Dev Anand and Waheed Rehman in ''Guide '' (1966) |frame|500px]]
 ==Guide was released in 1966, NOT 1965==

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 =The various directors who were considered=
 ==The English version==
 [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/guide-1965/article1425812.ece SURESH KOHLI: The Hindu] gives us many interesting facts: