GURU – THE FILMIt is very clear that the
inspiration behind Maniratnam was none other than the
late Dhrubhai Ambani, the founder of ‘Reliance Industries’. But he was an inspiration and nothing more. The rest is the work of a master craftsman, and I should make bold to
say a rare director, Mr. Maniratnam. It is very difficult to find out such a meticulous director nowadays. Mithun Chakravarthy got a role of his lifetime in ‘Guru’. In Tamil there is a saying. If the mother (tiger) jumps eight
feet, the cub will jump sixteen feet. That seems to be the case with Abhishek Bacchan. He seems to have left his father far behind. But the credit, I think, should go to Maniratnam’s direction. The metamorphosis from a young and inexperienced but with a distinct personality who spurns a cushy job for an enterprising and risky
business career, to a powerful and innovative business tycoon and industrialist in his middle age is complete. You do not see that young man at the end. The road was not strewn with roses. On the contrary, as the protagonist speaks before the Enquiry Commission, he had to lose many things in the struggle though he never lost his courage. When will Aishwarya Rai stop those stupid gestures which they call as dance? Ultimately she has been given some meaningful role towards the second half of the
FILM without in anyway reducing the focus on the hero. Madhavan makes a brief but pivotal appearance. All the central characters have been finely interwoven to create a
high level and high quality human drama.More importantly Maniratnam transports us to the early and late twentieth century. The background score of A.R. Rahman shows that he is the best in the industry . We can say that capital of film production is shifting to India from Hollywood.SATHYA
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