Guru (2007) - The Movie

Guru is a life story narration of a villager (? na..) from rags to riches. I can’t visualize him as a villager rather a school dropout --smart-trade minded teenager rises from Turkey suddenly becomes so innocent "bij.ness" man. Apparantely Gurukanth desai progresses by his sheer determination and personal drive. The diplomacy he upholded even in marrying sujatha, lay bets on the market place & and the banter over Mithun & Madhavan, kid-bonus lol! are all true to his well-healed spirit. And the prolonged climax court scene predictably charges "GURU-'s 30 secs munafa" with 63+ lac penalty and rest him for a continuation . Abhishek has given a meticulous performance for his age & his conflicting spouse is smiling awfully even in the court scenes. The hopeless barso re intro, and most of their unexciting romantic scenes and flashback could have been trimmed easily. Mithun and Madhavan played their part fittingly their total brilliance, honesty and courage strips Guru's exclusive rights. Madhavan looks ravishing both in personality and character (dont be surprised if MR offers another AP role with Aamir in his forthcoming Lajjo). Vidhayabalan an aspiring weakness both to Guru & viewers is just a filler(MR's cruel screening on heavy rain lip-lock) .

Yes this is Maniratnam film, the script is a narration of multifaceted 50 years so the movements doesn’t needs much elaboration (tho Shakthi poly-corpn shots are substantial) and songs have been chopped to the maximum. There are clear evidences which I couldn’t stop relating to his earlier classic "velunaikar" the guru's old age getups & mannerism, stuffing goods in IAS officer homes and his softhearted towards jullakudi? VB. MR's speciality is his courage to pick controversial scripts with cushy narrating skills that always prop up with a technically brilliant crew (or the amount of brilliance to be owed). Rajeev Menon the camerama is the frontrunner captured the most extraordinary visuals starting from B/W scenes– Turkey/Bombay market scenes, several close-up shots & rainy scenes. I think I need to watch 10 times more to see how Madhavan character was introduced from camera's focus, dialogues, editing, BGM. MR's vintage best. Rahman grand score synchronizes beautifully well through out the movie with two exclusive themes on Guru's desire and emergence. Watch mayya mayya pictzn how the title credit rolls. Thats brilliant! The dialogues/editor are totally controlled under MR's vision, style & perspective. I can write so much on this the romantic dialogues bet AB/Aish (tere godhme baitne ke ticket chayie kiya)or Madhavan/VB (woh poora dhin chaahiye) or the intro of Madhavan(Guruko nanga karsakthe) . Topnotch! There is no much scope for Saroj khan, choreographer & what has Vikram Dharma to do in this movie (gentle pat bet Aish & AB)? Lol! H.Sridhar's, audiography has got a deserving share on the major title credits.

I am bit skeptical about the BO success inspite of raving reviews all over… Mainstream viewers always gets confused with his style of narration as its being a midrange to dry documentaries this one thankfully comes with lots of commercial elements. From what I have personally enquired from viewers response before and after watching, Guru is entitled for an average grosser but cannot be a big hit. Have to inquiringly wait and watch.

GURU a must watch & certainly evokes re-watch :)