Desi Galaxy

Guru is not an exceptionally great movie. It is a great movie, quite intelligent and fantastic for typical well-educated-Indian-middle-class audience. Based on the life of Indian business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani, this movie has a brilliant plot, it is a story of ambition, optimism, hope, dreams and love of course. Eventhough the movie is based on the lives of real life people but the director doesn’t claim that this movie is based on the biographical events from the life of any person.

Abhishek Bachchan performed brilliantly as Guru. This guy surprises me with each new movie. He has some genuine skills to offer and it shows with every new release. Aishwarya Rai didn’t has a role as strong as Abhishek, she was there in the movie to say some dialogues. Her character revolves around the character of Guru. But since there is so much hype about Aishwarya-Abhishek wedding in the press, the couple looked well coordinated in the movie. I would say that Mani Ratnam made the perfect decission to cast them together.

Mallika Sherawat has a sexy item number in the movie. If you size up Mallika’s performance from her vulgor dances and shameless display of her boobs. Then the Turkish and arabic belly dance with typical hindi masala was quite ok not very delicious though.

Lyrics were just as beautiful as the melodies of A. R. Rehman. All the songs and the background score is excellent. First song in the movie “Barso re” is a lively rain song by Shreya Ghosal and Uday Majumdar. Then there is ‘Tere Bina’ a song that A. R. Rehman has dedicated to the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. “Jaage hain” is a magical delight. Sung by Chitra and Rahman with Madras Chorale Group providing the orchestra.

But the greatest aspect of the movie is the cinematography. Rajiv Menon has proved himself to be the best cinematographer in Bollywood.

For Mani Ratnam I would like to quote from Aprajita Anil’s review:

But one head that weaves together all the vividness and intensity and spells out an incredible performance is the director. Kudos to Mani Ratnam! It is only a director of his stature and ability who can bind together emotion, drama, intensity and make it so rooted in reality.

Official Website: Guru - The film Unfortunately you can not download songs of Guru from the official website but you can watch the trailer and preview the music.