Guru – Movie Review

Story:
An inspirational tale of a young man who dares to dream big, to establish India’s largest company. The story revolves around him, how he builds his company from scratch after leaving a decent job in Turkey.

I am not sure how much the story resembles Dhirubhai Ambhani but it was very nicely done. It flowed nicely though with some loose ends here and there. The story was helped with a tremendous effort from Abhishek Bachchan. You connect with the main character and that helps to connect with the story.

Direction and Screenplay:
Its a Mani Ratnam film. Enough said.
Though in the screenplay, there were parts which seemed loose as there was no place in the story and it seemed a bit rushed there. But otherwise it was perfect.

Music:
AR Rahman does it again. Beautiful music. Every song.
And the item number from Mallika was Hot.

Performances:
Abhisekh Bachchan – Amazing. He certainly has lived up to his surname in this one. Why does he need to waste his time and talent on something like Dhoom!??. This film proves that he is a fantastic actor. A mind blowing performance and I dont see how anyone else could have carried it off. He oozed confidence. Fearlessness was in his eyes. Body language of a man who has seen and taken a lot of bricks but is still standing ready to fight back. He has shown a light of brilliance and shade of his father. Award worthy performance!

Aishwariya Rai – She was good!! Played the part just right, the Dhoom irritation and bad acting is all gone. A more sober character suits her. Very Good.

Mithun – What can i say?! He was good, he is fantastic, and amazing as always.

Madhavan – Wow, he has slimed down quite a lot. And his performance was his best performance till date, of course in Hindi movies.

Vidya Balan – I am not sure why her character was needed at all. But whatever she had to do, she was amazing in it. She shares a passionate smooch with Mahadvan.

The rest – Perfect

Overall:
A must watch. Though i can see why the likeness factor of the film will be subjective to each one of us. A brilliant film indeed it is, an inspirational movie. With a nice message in the end.

Rating: ★★★★½ (Must Watch)

Box Office prediction:
40 – 45 crores. Hit to Superhit. The movie has opened to a slow start, but the collections will improve post saturday due to the positive word-of-mouth the movie is receiving.

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