Directed by Mani Ratnam
Produced by Mani Ratnam
G. Srinivasan
Written by Mani Ratnam
Vijay Krishna Acharya
Starring Abhishek Bachchan,
Aishwarya Rai,
Vidya Balan,
Madhavan,
Mithun Chakraborty,
Roshan Seth
Mallika Sherawat
Music by A. R. Rahman
Cinematography Rajiv Menon
Editing by A. Sreekar Prasad
Distributed by Madras Talkies
Story: Set in the 1950s, an aspiring middle class Entrepruener
Gurukanth Desai creeps his way through a flawed economic system
which caters only for the rich and priviledged to climb up the
ranks. 20 years later, a prominent newspaper agency attempts to
knock him down from his pedestral in a battle of wits. Guru faces
yet his second battle which could either make him a national hero
or destroy him forever.
Reviews
Guru has generally received good reviews. The New York Post gave it
three out of four stars, the highest grade it has ever bestowed on
a Hindi film, and Los Angeles Weekly called it the best Hindi film
since Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India.[2] Richard Corliss of TIME
Magazine compared the film to Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
and said that one of the main highlights of the film was its
climax. [3] Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM.com claimed in his review that
"Guru ranks as one of Mani Ratnam's finest efforts and one of the
best to come out of the Hindi film industry." [4]
