Actors - Abhishek, Aishwarya Rai
Director- Mani Ratnam
MusicDirector -A.R. Rahman
year:2007
Well, it is almost the same story except for some small differences. Ambani came from Aden, while Gurukant Desai (Abhishek) comes from Turkey. Ambani called his group as Reliance industries, while Guru calls it Shakti Corporation. Otherwise the similarities are there for everyone to see. And there is a song which starts ‘Gurubhai Gurubhai …’, which I suppose sounds vaguely familiar with some other name.
Villager. Visionary. Businessman. Winner.
This is the rags to riches story of Gurukant Desai a.k.a Guru. It is a theatre of dreams and all the usual stuff required for a typical Bollywood cinema have been added to make this entertaining. First, let me concede that I didn’t go and watch this movie with lots of expectation as the last few Maniratnam movies have been let downs. I felt that he wasn’t able to get the pulse of the Hindi audience as much as he had done for regional audiences. But, Guru wasn’t disappointing even though it wasn’t as great as some of his earlier movies like Nayagan or Dalapathy or Roja.
The story line is very simple. Guru is a worker who is working in Turkey. His work is appreciated, but he decides that he wants to do business and returns to India. Against opposition from his family, he goes to the city to start his business and encounters the usual hiccups. How he overcomes one and all on his way to the riches is the story. He encounters Aishwarya Rai, Mithun, Madhavan, Vidya Balan and many others on his way to riches and how they play a part in his growth leads to a couple of interesting sequences.
Guru is not a typical out and out ManiRatnam movie. There is no preaching involved and the only message the director conveys is that work hard and you will achieve success. At the end of the movie there is no writing on the wall like this is the best thing to do, but the writing is that there are grey shades to everyone’s character and how one comes forward and accepts it is all that matters. Well, success doesn’t come without problems and that is also handled in the movie. There is a mixture of realism and artistic liberties in the movie and a couple of sequences lose the momentum due to the artistic liberties taken.
Villager. Visionary. Businessman. Winner.
This is the rags to riches story of Gurukant Desai a.k.a Guru. It is a theatre of dreams and all the usual stuff required for a typical Bollywood cinema have been added to make this entertaining. First, let me concede that I didn’t go and watch this movie with lots of expectation as the last few Maniratnam movies have been let downs. I felt that he wasn’t able to get the pulse of the Hindi audience as much as he had done for regional audiences. But, Guru wasn’t disappointing even though it wasn’t as great as some of his earlier movies like Nayagan or Dalapathy or Roja.
The story line is very simple. Guru is a worker who is working in Turkey. His work is appreciated, but he decides that he wants to do business and returns to India. Against opposition from his family, he goes to the city to start his business and encounters the usual hiccups. How he overcomes one and all on his way to the riches is the story. He encounters Aishwarya Rai, Mithun, Madhavan, Vidya Balan and many others on his way to riches and how they play a part in his growth leads to a couple of interesting sequences.
Guru is not a typical out and out ManiRatnam movie. There is no preaching involved and the only message the director conveys is that work hard and you will achieve success. At the end of the movie there is no writing on the wall like this is the best thing to do, but the writing is that there are grey shades to everyone’s character and how one comes forward and accepts it is all that matters. Well, success doesn’t come without problems and that is also handled in the movie. There is a mixture of realism and artistic liberties in the movie and a couple of sequences lose the momentum due to the artistic liberties taken.
தமிழ் திரை படம் குரு பகுதி 1
தமிழ் திரை படம் குரு பாகம்2
தமிழ் திரை படம் குரு பாகம்3
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