Well Guru is a good start to 2007. Its has a novel concept. It encourages you to do something.
The Story:
In a small village of Idhar in Gujarat, a young man dreams of making it big some day. His father(Rajendra Gupta), the headmaster of the village school, tells him that dreams never come true. But Gurukant Desai(Abhishek Bachchan) never stopped dreaming.
Set in 1951, Guru tells the story of a ruthlessly ambitious villager who moves to Turkey first and Mumbai later with his wife Sujata(Aishwarya Rai) and brother-in-law Jignesh(Arya Babbar) to fulfill his dreams.
In Mumbai, truth dawns upon Guru that the business world is a closed community ruled by a handful of rich and influential people who don’t believe in giving opportunities to new players. Despite barriers, he starts a company called Shakti Trading and climbs the ladder of success at a furious pace.
Manik Dasgupta aka Nanaji(Mithun Chakraborty), who publishes a newspaper Swatantra, treats Guru as his son. But when he learns that Guru’s means to make it big are not right, he along with the Editor of his newspaper, Shyam(Madhavan), decide to expose Guru’s unjust ways.
Direction:
Mani Ratnam does well. Nothing else, its just the concept of the movie that made it look good.
Cast Performance:
Abhishek Bachchan- Good Performance, but no marks for him because he kept on copying Amitabh Bachchan every single minute except the starting parts of movie when he arrives in the village.
Aishwarya Rai- Good Performance.
Mithunda- I think he was the best in the movie. His acting was superb.
Rest of the cast is okay.
On the whole, good movie but seemed to become artificial at times due to either performance or direction at that time. I just liked the concept of the movie and its story.