Randor Guy is a well-known writer and journalist of India. He is also a noted film, social and cultural historian. His writings on a variety of subjects have appeared widely all over India in many languages like English, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi in all the leading publications.

After earning a BSc, BL from Madras University, Randor practiced as a lawyer for sometime and then started work as an executive in a leading broking firm, Paterson & Co., Madras for five years. He left his job in an agency in 1976 to work as full time creative professional.

His article on the noted filmmaker, Frank Capra was purchased by USIA, Washington D.C., USA for use as resource material for the Frank Capra Retrospective in many countries. He was the only non-American historian whose work was acquired by the US Govt. He was engaged by USIS, India to lecture on Capra and his films at Madras, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Hyderabad for the Retro in these cities, the first Indian to be so engaged.

Randor writes popular columns in weeklies and leading dailies like `The Hindu` and `Express`. He also writes for film magazine `Screen`.

He has also written radio plays and documentaries. To add to the list is a 100-minute feature film for a Hollywood film company, entitled `Perfumed Garden`. The film was released in 1999. It was also dubbed in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu as `Bramhachari`.

Randor is currently working on a screenplay for a Sinhala film `Paradise Peak` based on a best-selling crime novel by him. He also delivers lectures as Visiting Professor at Stella Maris College, Loyola College, New College, Tamil Nadu Film and Television Institute, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute of Mass Communications, Madras. Randor was a member of the selection panel for the Indian Panorama Films for the International Film Festival, Trivandrum, 1997.

A proficient in English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, he believes that work is worship, and to worship is to work!

Books written by Randor

While the Breakers Roared (Fiction)
Indian Ribaldry (Fiction, published in India, Japan and USA)
Murder for Pleasure (True Crime)
Madhuri Oru Madhiri (Fiction - Tamil)
Chaya (Fiction - Telugu)
Kasi (Fiction - Telugu)
B. N. Reddy (Film History)
A History of Tamil Cinema (Film History - Govt. of Tamil Nadu)
Chitale (Biography)
Starlight Starbright - Early Tamil Cinema (Best-seller)
Monsoon (Novelization of a Hollywood movie shot in India)