Guru (2007-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Guru Movie Details :

Guru is a 2007 Indian Bollywood drama film directer and co-writter is Mani Ratnam. It stars Mithun Chakraborty, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhavan, Vidya Balan, and Roshan Seth in the leading roles, with Mallika Sherawat in a guest appearance. The score and soundtrack for the film was composer is A. R. Rahman.

The film is largely based on the life of one of India’s biggest industrial tycoons, Dhirubhai Ambani. The film was released on 12 January 2007 with its première at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday 11 January 2007 by Roger Nair, making it the first Indian film to have a mainstream international première in Canada. Roger Nair productions acquired the rights for Canada and held a premiere with most of the cast and crew flown to Toronto, Canada. The film was premiered in the Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) section of 2007 Cannes Film Festival..The flim is owned by Red Chillies Entertainment.

• Directer : Mani Ratnam
• Producer : Mani Ratnam,G. Srinivasan
• Writter : Vijay Krishna Acharya,Azhagam Perumal
• Screenplay : Mani Ratnam
• Starring : Abhishek Bachchan,Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,R. Madhavan,Vidya Balan,Mithun Chakraborty,Arya Babbar
• Music : A. R. Rahman
• Cinematography : Rajiv Menon
• Editer : A. Sreekar Prasad
• Production Design : Samir Chanda
• Art Direction : Ozkan Cimenli,Sabu Cyril,Chetan Pathak,Nitin Wable
• Costume Design : Anu Parthasarathy,Ameira Punvani
• Makeup Department : Pravin Banker
• Production Management : Mukti K. Mohanty
• Special Effects : Mike H.G. Bates,Mike Stringer
• Visual Effects : Ritesh Aggarwal,Vishal Bengare,Prince Chaurasia
• Action Directer : Vikram Dharma,Sanober Pardiwalla
• Production Company : Madras Talkies
• Distributors : Adlabs Home Entertainment,Bharat Entertainment International,Kalaignar Tv,Kaleidoscope Entertainment ,Roger Nair Productions
• Genres : Biography,Drama
• Release date : 12 January 2007
• Running time : 162 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast of The Film :

• Abhishek Bachchan as Gurukant “Guru” Desai
• Mithun Chakraborty as “Nanaji” Manik Dasgupta
• Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Sujata Desai
• Madhavan as Shyam Saxena
• Vidya Balan as Meenakshi “Meenu” Saxena
• Roshan Seth as Justice Thapar
• Mallika Sherawat as Jhumpa, the dancer in song “Mayya Mayya”
• Arya Babbar as Jignesh
• Arjan Bajwa as Arzan Contractor
• Rajendra Gupta as Guru’s father Kantilal Desai
• Sarita Joshi as Mrs.Desai, Guru’s stepmother
• Sachin Khedekar as Sujata’s father
• Neena Kulkarni as Sujata’s mother
• Prathap K. Pothan as K. R. Menon I.A.S.
• Darshan Jariwala as Anand Patekar
• Sanjay Mishra as Chhagan Bhai (Guru’s senior in Turkey)
• Manoj Joshi as Ghanshyam Bhai
• Dhritiman Chatterjee as Contractor
• Sanjay Swaraj
• T. M. Karthik
• Raviprakash
• Sunny Subramanian as Young Guru

Story of The Film :

A school-teacher in India sires a son named Gurukant, but is disappointed as the child fails to live up to his high expectations. When Gurukant grows up, he is unable to secure decent employment in India, so finds a way to go to Turkey, where he finds employment. When he returns back to India, he wants to start his own business, but is unable to do so, as he does not have enough money. So he does some research, gets to meet Sujata, the daughter of a wealthy man named Jignesh, and marries her. After the marriage, Gurukant finds out that Sujata has a dark past, but he ignores this – for his one motive is to be to rise in the eyes of his father – and get rich.

Production :

Guru was written and directer is Mani Ratnam, while Vijay Krishna Acharya wrote the Hindi dialogues. Film shooting took place in Mumbai, Turkey, Badami and Melkote (both in Karnataka), as well as in Chennai, Pollachi, Chettinad region Tamil Nadu, and Athirappilly in Kerala. Much of the film was shot on the Express Estates, the former home of The Indian Express and Dinamani. The music is composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics by Gulzar. Cinematography for the film is handled by Rajiv Menon. Several scenes were deleted from the final theatrical version, including a scene in which Sujata first gives birth to a stillborn child and a scene in which Guru becomes angry with his wife for visiting Manik Dasgupta.

Guru has others involved in the production as a film that is reflective of a man’s desire for ambition and success, and how times have changed from the period immediately after the country’s independence to the present. Some reports have speculated that this film is a biographical film of, one of India’s biggest industrial tycoons, Dhirubhai Ambani. Like Guru, Ambani also had roots in Gujarat as the son of a schoolteacher, went abroad to work for the gas company Shell, and returned to India to import polyester. Ratnam has described Guru as inspired by stories both past and present.

The less known fact is that, the role of Madhavan is based on Swaminathan Gurumurthy, who along with Ramnath Goenka worked to expose Reliance Industries. The title is speculated to be an acknowledgement of this fact, where in his name is playfully swapped with Ambani’s character. In real life, Gurumurthy has twin daughters much like the Guru character in the movie.

Guru Movie Songs / Music :

The soundtrack for this film is composed by A. R. Rahman. For work in this film, A. R. Rahman received both the “Best Music” and “Best Background Score” awards in “Filmfare awards” as well as “IIFA awards”. However, in Filmfare, the award for best music was being speculated to be given to Vishal–Shekhar for their work in the album Om Shanti Om, but it was given to A. R. Rahman instead for ‘Guru’ . According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 11,50,000 units sold, this film’s soundtrack album was the year’s twelfth highest-selling.

• “Ek Lo Ek Muft” – Bappi Lahari & K. S. Chithra
• “Tere Bina” – A. R. Rahman, Chinmayi, Murtuza Khan & Qadir Khan
• “Jaage Hain” – K.S.Chithra, A. R. Rahman & Madras Choral Group
• “Ey Hairathe” – Hariharan, Alka Yagnik & A. R. Rahman
• “Mayya” – Maryem Tollar, Chinmayi & Keerthi Sagathia
• “Baazi Laga” – Udit Narayan, Madhushree, Shweta Mohan & Bhargavi Pillai
• “Barso Re” – Shreya Ghoshal & Uday Mazumdar
• “Shaouk Hai” – Sowmya Raoh
• “Guru Theme Music” – Chorus

“Tere Bina” Full Video Song :

• Singer – A.R. Rahman, Chinmaye, Murtuza Khan & Qadir Khan
• Composer – A.R. Rahman
• Lyricists – Gulzar
• Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

“Barso Re” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Shreya Ghoshal
• Composer – A.R. Rahman
• Lyricists – Gulzar
• Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

Guru Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.7 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 21,820.

I saw this movie while I was in India last week. It is a good movie altogether, all in Hindi – which of course I don’t understand – and it lasts for 3 hours – which is very long for a European viewer. Anyway, the story is good and complicated unlike some other Bollywood movies but it is worth to see the most of the characters lives to understand and appreciate it. The actors are excellent and will keep you interested in the movie from the beginning to its end. I only wish Bollywood would add English subtitles, that would bring more viewers in the Indian cinema theaters, and more interest from the entire cinema world to the Bollywood movies. This genre deserves some recognition worldwide.

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4 star out of 5 Star.

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