Guru (2007)

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Movie
German title guru
Original title guru
Country of production India
original language Hindi , Tamil , English
Publishing year 2007
length 166 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Mani Ratnam
script Vijay Krishna Acharya , Mani Ratnam , Anurag Kashyap
production Mani Ratnam , G. Srinivasan , Ilhan Kizilkaya
music AR Rahman
camera Rajiv Menon
cut A. Sreekar Prasad
occupation

Guru (also: Guru - Never lose hope ; Hindi : गुरू) is a successful Bollywood film by the well-known director Mani Ratnam from 2007.

action

Idhar village, Gujarat : The young guru Desai wants to become a businessman and travels to Turkey in 1951 against his father's wishes . In Istanbul he earns his first money and gets to know the economic business processes. Nevertheless, after years of work, he renounces the great career in Turkey and returns to India .

There he married the pretty Sujata in order to gain a foothold economically in Bombay with her father's dowry . In 1958 he travels to the metropolis of millions with Sujata and her brother, who is also Guru's business partner Jignesh. Guru desperately tries to build business relationships among the traders. He only succeeds in doing this through tricks and builds up a polyester company.

Years later, Guru becomes a powerful man and owner of the large polyester factory "Shakti Corporation". Guru's dream is to become the largest company in India. But with his corrupt methods he attracts the attention of the publisher Manikdas Gupta, who then incites the reporter Shyam Saxena on Guru.

Shyam made negative headlines for the Shakti company and criticized Gurukant's methods. Tax evasion and smuggling operations from abroad played a major role.

There is a public trial where the guru blames the Indian government and especially its legislation for the economic crisis. Guru, as a poor villager, had no choice but to achieve success with corrupt means. The judges show understanding and gurus' company gets away with a fine.

Many years later, Guru's dream finally comes true: Shakti Corporation is now India's largest company.

Reviews

"Solidly produced drama with a semi-documentary claim that offers effective entertainment with good actors within the framework of a manageable Bollywood standard."

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

Filmfare Award 2008

Star Screen Award (2008)

IIFA Award (2008)

music

Song title Singer
Barso Re Shreya Ghoshal and Uday Mazumdar
Tere Bina AR Rahman , Murtuza Khan , Quadir Khan and Chinmayee
Ek Lo Ek Muft Bappi Lahiri and Chitra Sivaraman
Mayya Maryem Tollar , Chinmayee , Keerthi and Devika Mathur
Ay Hairathe Hariharan and Alka Yagnik
Baazi Laga Udit Narayan , Madhushree , Shweta and Bhargavi Pillai
Jaage grove KS Chithra and AR Rahman
Shauk Hai Sowmya Raoh
Dhoom Dhamaka Choir (as background music)

Others

The story is based on the rise of the entrepreneur Dhirubhai Ambani . The character played by Mithun Chakraborty is based on the publisher Ramnath Goenka , an opponent of Ambani's methods.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9