No other job in the world would give you the pleasure of being paid for exploring cities and if you’ve done good karma, you might even find true love while exploring, like Harry the tourist guide, aka Shah Rukh Khan did in Jab Harry Met Sejal. It’s no rocket science to be a tourist guide. The qualification for being a good tourist guide is: No degree required! All you need is great communication skills, knowledge of the local language, knowledge of the culture and history of the city and if you know any one foreign language then your life is set! No wonder then that the reel life tourist guides make it look like a cakewalk! Let’s take a look at some of Bollywood stars who have played a tour guide in reel and real
Jacqueline Fernandez too has played tourist guide in real life, to pop sensation Justin Bieber, during his recent trip to India. Beliber’s would have killed to do that for sure!
Actor Kabir Bedi is probably the only Bollywood actor who has lived the life of a tourist guide in real. While in college, he wanted to earn some pocket money so he enrolled himself in the tourism department in Delhi during the summers.
But when it comes to the on screen tour guides, yesteryear actor Dev Anand takes top place. It is also being said that Shah Rukh Khan’s role as a tour guide in Jab Harry met Sejal, has been inspired by Dev Anand’s role in Guide
Talking about tour guides, how can we forget Govinda as the popular and easy going, fun tour guide, Tony in Albela.
Aamir Khan who believes in the saying ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ was a shayari loving tourist guide too. Well, not in real life but in a film called Fanaa. But what’s more interesting is, the incident where a real life tour guide failed to recognise the actor,when he was in Mahaballipuram, on a promotional tour during 3 Idiots. It is believed that when the actor told the guide, “Hello! I am Aamir Khan,’ the guide was absolutely clueless!
Vaani Kapoor is probably the only on screen female tourist guide. She played the sexy tour guide, Shyra, in Aditya Chopra’s Befikre. She not only took the onscreen tourists but also the cinema goers on a whirlwind tour of Paris. If only we had tour guides like her in real!
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