Guddi

I found this movie to be one of the weakest by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

It starts on a promising note. The infatuation of school girls with movie stars is aptly captured with Jaya Bhaduri nailing it as a bubbly teenage girl. The scene where the girls meet Dharamendra for the first time is done well.

Unfortunately, the movie loses steam in the second half when the story shifts to Bombay. Since the script uses real life movie stars as part of the story, it has the onus of being politically correct to depict all the film personalities as perfect idealizations. After a point, the preoccupation of script with flattering of the stars derails the narrative.