Guru - The Movie

Who has not seen ‘Guru’ by now? Well at least all the MBA students have. I have watched the movie too and to put it in plain words it was ‘Great!. Aishwarya in her traditional ‘half-saree’ and Abhishek in his 70’s style clothing was a sight to watch. What I found different in this movie was that there were no product placements in the movie and there were no outside locations like Switzerland or Hong Kong to push the movie forward. The purpose of the movie was simply….to entertain.

In this mad race today movies have become a media for advertising and also commercialization but Mani Ratnam so beautifully shows that it’s not the sparsely clothed actresses, exotic locations, macho heroes or vulgar scenes that are sure shot for a ‘hit’ movie, it can very simply be the script itself and the message it conveys.

The movie glorifies the need of an emerging country like ours to have more entrepreneurs who can challenge not only the established companies within the country but the world. Mani Ratnam has made very good choice on his character, Mr.Dhirubhai Ambani who learned to dream big and fulfilled it. The director has easily molded Mr.Dhirubhai Ambani’s life into an inspirational one. It gives us an inside view on how business actually works and its not always hard work but smart work which pays. While most of the movies overemphasize either the hero or heroine’s role this movie has given equal weightage to both. Though Aishwarya does not picture too often but her role has been portrayed in a very powerful way. In the sense his vision, confidence and sheer grit of Guru was not his alone but backed up by his ever loving and supporting wife.

Packed with powerful dialogues and foot tapping numbers by A.R.Rahman the movie is a must see.