GUIDE: ONCE AGAIN I WISH TO LIVE I've recently been so much into Dev Anand's movies after reading his autobiography "Romancing With Life" and one of the movies which I watched a couple of days back was "Guide". Directed by Vijay Anand, it is based on RK Narayan's novel 'The Guide' with Dev saab being the producer as well and with Sachin Dev Burman or SD Burman giving the musical score to the film. While I write this blog while listening to one of the classic songs of the film, as a viewer I would say this was Dev Anand's one of the remarkable films. It depicts themes like a married woman having an affair, and a man and woman getting into a relationship outside the boundaries of marriage; all this is especially remarkable considering the fact the film was made and based in 1960s, when such themes were still considered to be quite progressive and western. The film makes no attempt to show any ‘hero-like’ ch...