GURU - STORY :
’GURU’ IS THE STORY OF A MIDDLE CLASS BOY (Abhishek Bachchan) LIVING IN IDHAR VILLAGE WITH HIS FATHER WORKING AS ’HEADMASTER’ IN A SCHOOL BUT WITH HIGH DREAMS & VISIONARY TO SEE INDIA BEYOND & TO ACHIEVE HIS DESTINY. AFTER HE BECAME YOUNG, HE WENT TO BOMBAY IN 1958 WITH HIS WIFE, BROTHER IN-LAW & MERE Rs. 15, 000 IN A SMALL SUITCASE TO START BUSINESS WHO GOES FROM RAGS TO RICHES , DETERMINATION DESPITE BEING FACED WITH MANY BUSINESS BARRIERS.
INITIALLY HE FELT DISAPPOINTED BY THE PEOPLE WHO SATTIRICALLY CALL HIM THAT THERE IS NO PLACE FOR NEWCOMERS IN MUMBAI & THAT TOO START A BUSINESS. ITS THE PLACE FOR RICH. BUT HE DIDNT ATTEND OTHERS SATIRE & HAD IN IS MIND TO REACH HIS DESTINY WITH STRONG DESIRE TO KICK THE DOORS OPEN OR CAJOLE THEM OPEN WHICH HE DID BOTH.
40 YEARS LATER HE STARTED A COMPANY - SHAKTI TRADING IN A 350 Sq. Feet. AREA WITH 1 TELEPHONE, 1 TABLE & 3 CHAIRS. SHAKTI TRADING BECAME FIRST INDIAN COMPANY TO ENTER FORBES TOP 500 LIST. AND THAT EVENT MADE PEOPLE SURPRISED AS HOW THAT HAPPENED WHO THOUGHT THAT HE WAS MAD CHASING HIS FOOLISH DREAMS.
ISNT THE STORY OF ’GURU’ SIMILAR TO THAT OF MULTI-BILLIONAIRE TYCOON LATE DHIRUBHAI AMBANI. HERES A COMPARISON :
DHIRUBHAI AMBANI.
- IN THE MOVIE, GURU’s COMPANY (SHAKTI TRADING) WAS THE FIRST INDIAN COMPANY TO ENTER FORBES 500 LIST & ALSO DHIRUBHAI AMBANI’s RELIANCE WAS THE FIRST INDIAN COMPANY TO ENTER FORBES 500 LIST.
CAST :
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN - GURUKANT DESAI (GURU)
AISHWARYA RAI - SUJATHA, Guru’s wife.
MITHUN CHAKRABORTY - NANAJI, owner of a newspaper ’The independent’.
MADHAVAN - SHYAM SAXENA, a 22 year old journalist & against guru’s ideologies.
VIDYA BALAN - MEENU, madhavan’s handicapped wife & admires GURU.
SARITA JOSHI - Mother of Gurukant.
OTHERS CASTS :
MALLIKA SHERAWAT - SPECIAL APPEARANCE, DANCER
JOHN ABRAHAM, ARYA BABBAR, KUNAL KAPOOR.
PRODUCER :
MANI RATNAM, G SRINIVASAN
DIRECTOR :
MANI RATNAM
MUSIC :
A. R. RAHMAN
LOCATIONS :
MUMBAI
CHENNAI
TURKEY
RELEASE DATE :
JANUARY 12, 2007.