Guru has many things to make you excited. 1. It is directed by the Guru of direction, Mani Ratnam. 2. Music is by the Guru of music industry, A R Rahman. 3. It is based on life of the business Guru, Dhirubhai Ambani.
The movie is about life of Gurukant Desai (Abhishek Bachchan), a dreamer, who lives in a small village and believes in dreaming high. The movie shows how Guru becomes India’s top businessman from a small time worker in Turkey. You will find many similarities between the character Guru and Dhirubhai Ambani, be it paralysis attack or being constantly in the news with various allegations.
The movie is shown in 3 phases, Phase 1, the young Guru who leaves India for Turkey to earn more. Phase 2, the young matured Guru, who leaves his job in Turkey and comes back to India to start his own business. And Phase 3, A middle aged businessman, who is top businessman in India and does not believe in looking back. (Even after he was paralyzed).
From the beginning itself the movie does not let you move for a single minute, the music, the cinematography, the direction and finally the acting. Everything is just on the right place and very well balanced. I think this movie will be a milestone for Abhishek Bachchan as his acting abilities have been explored very well. This will be the best role of his career so far. Aishwarya Rai played the role of a very simple innocent girl from a small village. And she played it very well. But the movie totally belongs to Abhishek Bachchan.
The cinematography is really impressive, the locals of the village are shot very beautifully. The waterfalls, the grass fields just make you feel like being there.
Let me sum up the movie.
Story: It is based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani, the director has handled the subject brilliantly.
Music: When it is A R Rahman, it has to be top class. I personally liked all of the songs. Specially Tere Bina is very impressive.
Acting: Abhishek Bachchan deserves an award. Excellent acting. Aishwarya Rai was also very good. The acting was just too natural. I had a fear that they might not fit well in Gujarati characters but I am really happy that they proved me wrong. Other characters too did their job well. It was good to see Mithun Chakraborty in a decent role after a long time. R Madhavan looked a lot more slimmer than his earlier avatar. Vidya Balan had a very short role but she was good at it.
So, overall I would give this movie 4 stars out of 5. It is a must watch.
Predicto Meter: It should do very good business all over.
Coming from Mani Rathnam, who has always delivered classic – if not successful – films, Guru has had loads of expectations. And though the reviews are good, it remains to be seen how the success-story is sculpted at the BO. Even Yuva was well-made but statistically ended up as a dud!
And to my chagrin, PVR’s sold out all shows until Wednesday 🙁
Thanks for the review… U completely decide on my movie choices. U said its a must watch… will obey 🙂
ok, as u say .. i will watch it asap 😀
Hmm… gonna watch the movie ASAP. Cinemas in Dubai is booked for this weekend…
Saw the movie, well crafted, technically fantastic =.. the Background score ” Guru Bhai …” haunts you even after the movie. Great scenes… specially the picturization of Barso Re… Amazing performace by Abhishek, And a good review from you too!
I would also give it a 4 out of 5.
Cheers!
i want to see this movie very badly, but nobody is there to go along with 🙁
Just went out to see movie last night.
The movie was awesome, and not as it has been thought.
Let see the how it goes, not just as “umraojaan” 🙂
was not that impressed with GURU….read my take on the movie here……..http://ktima.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/amit-reviews-guru/
Will watch this one I hope. Worth a watch it seems.
I think the movie will take Abhishek Bacchan places, will fetch him very many roles & for a while shut the trade analysts up!
The movie might not fair very well at the box office, but surely has raised the standard of our Indian cinema & movies yet again!
Thanks to the erstwhile year, bollywood is really churning out good movies & some good trend seems to be set!
I think a over hyped movie. Acting is good so as direction and music.
3/5
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Just loved this film! Definitely a film that should win many awards. Does anyone know when it will be available on DVD?
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