What can you say about Abhishek Bachchan? Abhishek delivered a knockout performance and easily the best of his career for Guru. Very few could have guessed that Junior B had so much potential in him.
Abhishek lives his character and right from his facial expressions, to his body language to his dialogur delivery everything Abhishek does is conveying something to the audience and adding to the authenticity of his character. Movie became an essential watch out for his climactic speech in the courtroom...hell watch out for him in this
entire film!
Mani Ratnam, the director and co-producer of Guru is an eminent and established name. Mani has always given Indian audiences something to think about. He has his hand on the pulse of India and his films are driven by the beat of patriotism, by strands of hopes, by dreams. When he decided to make Guru, he wanted somebody whose personality could
match the vigour and earnestness of the central lead character Gurukant Desai. Since GURU was about a villager who dared to pursue his dreams despite being told every step of the way that he was extending himself one step too far. In the film Gurukant Desai, has historical resemblance with Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Group of Industries .
Guru was the story of a visionary, a leader, a winner. But despite being fixated upon the life of Gurukant Desai it was also a story about the hopes and aspirations of India. In broad strokes Mani Ratnam examines the role of the media, the nature of corruption and the cure to poverty and more interestingly the clashes between each and this is what makes the film one of the classiest products to come out of the industry in recent years.
Abhishek Bachchan plays Gurukant Desai, an ambitious young villager who dreams of making it big. From a small village in Idhar (Gujrat), Guru heads off to Turkey before deciding to start his own business in
Mumbai. But it's not smooth going and Guru finds many doors closed to him; he finds his dream slowly slipping away in India's bureaucratic wasteland. But he slogs away unperturbed establishing his own company Shakti Trading and climbing the ladder of success at a furious pace. He reaches extraordinary heights with the help of Manik Dasgupta
(Mithun Chakraborty), the owner of the newspaper Swatantra, whom he regards as a father-figure. However, as he rakes in the money he sells out to corruption. Manik, his ally in his rise begins to engineer with his editor Shyam (Mahadevan) Guru's downfall. So begins the seesawing battle. But this is more than a clash of personalities, a battle between right and wrong, because this is nothing straightforward in Mani Ratnam film, so as in life generally.
Mani Ratnam establishes Guru as a flawed character. A man who is capable of great loyalty and generosity but who is often blinded by his dreams, blinded by an obsession with money. He bribes, lies and deceives his way to the top but in doing so he pulls thousands out of poverty. He bends the rules for his own sake but then were these laws, were these rules legitimate in the first place?
Aishwarya also surprises in the film minus all her natural glamour and she stuns you with the depth she lends her character.Mithun Chakraborty sinks his teeth into his character wholeheartedly. He infuses life into his character and captures his character's emotional struggle with utmost conviction. Madhavan was convincing. Vidya Balan was less so partly due to weak characterisation. The rest of the supporting cast was faultless. . The movie also had Mallika Sherawat
in a guest appearance.
Abhishek Bachchan did very well in playing a complex role and deserves great credit. The movie was well directed and well acted by all the stars and hence the film was a treat to watch.This movie was sure to bring big awards for Abhishek Bachchan and it did.
Music of the film
A.R Rahman's produced a soul-stirring background score which at times overwhelmed not only the audience but the film itself! Also you can't help but wonder what the song 'Ek Lo Ek Muft' adds to the film but Barso Re and Tere Bina are nothing less than classics.
Though Abhishek was not awarded any popular award for the film, Guru, released Jan 12, 2007 grossed approximately Rs.80 crores across the country and was declared a hit at the box-office.
GURU wasn't just a film…it's was a lifetime experience!
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