Movie Review : Guru

Cast -: Abhishek Bacchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vidya Balan, Madhavan, Mithun chakraborthy
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The interesting part of guru isnt the movie itself but its striking resemblence to Dhirubahi Ambani's Life story. Gurukanth Desai,the son of a small time crack dealer of rural gujarat holds high aspirations and in the process drops out of school.he tries to establish himself among the other petty businessmen of the locality.soon he strikes 'gold' in one of his fields and starts a small time company in the name of shakti limited.In the meantime he marries a rural gujarathi girl Sujatha ( Rai). He seeks his fortune and the good fate of his company in a distant land of turkey.he makes rapid strides in his business by convincing almost half the gujarathis of his land to buy his shares and earns a fortune for them through polyester which is on the rise at that time.his aggression and success make him earn not only money but a lot of enemies.the press starts printing false news abt him and his company.he falls prey to the wrath of many reputed personalities and also the public.Guru is an epic of how he comes out of his troubles with an iron fist.The movie is interesting in parts and a bit dragging in the end.Abhishek delivers the performance of his life and Aish delivers a performance much to be desired.Madhavan and Mithunda deliver performances of power in whatever small roles they hav got and are good in the movie.Musically the film is average and even big names like A r Rehman and gulzar(music director and liricist) fail to do justice.the story has striking resemblence to ambani sr as mentioned earlier considering the story.even the logo of shakti limited resembles the original logo that ambani had for his company,not to mention ambanis visit to turkey almost at the same time.THis film takes us thro the 1960-1980's ,the same peroid of the rise of reliance.Dispite all these similarities,mani ratnam scornfully denies any recemblence which is also shown at the starting of the movie specifically.all and all a character oriented movie packed with powerful performances.the usb of the film is its resemblence to ambani's story.watch it only for the acting and not for anything else!
Rating -:*** 2\10
Legend : *-nerve testing,**-Mediocre,***-above average,*****-stunning,*****-a classic