 Narayan 's book The Guide was adapted to film as Guide , a Hindi movie directed by Vijay Anand . An English @-@ language version was also released . Narayan was not happy with the way the film was made and its deviation from the book ; he wrote a column in Life magazine , " The Misguided Guide , " criticising the film . The book was also adapted to a Broadway play by Harvey Breit and Patricia Rinehart , and was staged at Hudson Theatre in 1968 with Zia Mohyeddin playing the lead role and a music score by Ravi Shankar . 
