S D Burman enjoyed a productive partnership with Dev Anand's production house Navketan for two decades, but their collaboration reached its apogee with Guide.

For a man who epitomized the free spirit of the soul and never agreed to it being bound by rules and traditions, manifest from the cinematic repertoire of more than five decades that he has left ...

This was when Bimal Roy first chose to team up with S D Burman (instead of his regular composer collaborator Salil Chowdhury) ...

I was a hard-core Dara Singh fan. I looked forward to watching his films and imitated his wrestling style in scuffles with local kids. I did not actually consider him a great actor though. I told him ...