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Hyderabad, Apr 15: Dev Anand's Guide is getting a makeover. Nearly 200 technicians are working at this lab in Hyderabad to give the evergreen classic a new dash of colour.

The Eastmancolor-corrected, jazzed up version of the film will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month.

"When Guide is restored and recolourised, it will give you a different flavour. It gives you a different experience and value for money when you will go and see it in today's theatres," said Rajesh Kalidindi, President, Goldstone Technologies.

Goldstone Technologies has already given its finishing touch to another Dev Anand film, the black and white Hum Dono and is awaiting a nod from the actor-director to re-release the film.

"He had no words when he saw the final Hum Dono. He must have never expected that this will be the kind of quality that will be produced," said Rajesh Kalidindi.

Unlike Hum Dono, where the background score was re-recorded from mono to dolby sound, Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar will sound just the same in this new improved version of Guide.

The sound track has however, been cleaned up to weed out any damage over time.

It's not just the Dev magic that's getting techno-improved. Work is underway on 40 more classic films, the first of them, Kannada superstar Dr Rajkumar's Satya Harishchandra will re-release next week on his birth anniversary.