GURU
The most awaited movie through out the nation hit the screen last week(12th Jan'07). The movie kept the expectations among the people for a couple of reasons, may be because it was the legendary ManiRathnam's direction and the story was about an Indian Business tycoon - Ambani. The lead was Abishek Bhachan as GuruKant Desai and Aishwarya Rai as Sujata, Madhavan(Shyam Saxena) and Mithun Chakraborthy(Manik Dasgupta) have performed a very important role along with Vidhya Balan(Meenu). The music was accelerated by A.R.Rehman and lyrics by Gulzar, cinematography by Rajiv Menon.
Mani totally seem to have concentrated on the later period of Guru, once after he established his polyster company(Sakthi Corporation). May be, he has missed out showing the early period of Guru, and the real struggle that he made to become rich. Whenever the background sounds "Guru bhai.. Guru bhai", i am sure u would have whispered "Dhirubhai..Dhirubhai" (Dhirubhai Ambani)within yourself. Guru was also shown to have worked with "Shell" in his early stage.The phrases of Guru saying "Think big, Think ahead, Think fast" was very expressive. These 3 instance in the film would have made the resembles between Guru and Ambani very easy and effective.
Madhavan was given the role of letting out the wrong done by Guru. Madhavan worked as a reporter under Mithun Chakraborthy for the newspaper "The Independent". Guru was made to appear in the court for the export fraud and the other wrong doings of his. The explanation that Guru gave to the judicial officials infront of the press was very effective and that had helped him hold the support of his share holders. Finally he ended up as a biggest entrepreneur in the nation.
The film was also dubbed in tamil with the voice of Surya for Abishek bhachan and lyrics by vairamuthu. "Guru" was well screenplayed by Mani Rathnam and its clear that he had done a lot of ground work for the script.The songs and the background music composed by A.R.R was a great strength to the movie. Cinematography too was very expressive in most part of the film. In short Guru - "The story of a Business tycoon with a typical ManiRathnam touch"...
