Guru is a forthcoming Hindi/English bilingual film to be directed by Mani Ratnam. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vidya Balan in pivotal roles. The search is on for the main antagonist of the film opposite Vidya Balan. The movie also stars Mallika Sherawat in a cameo which plays a significant part in the narrative of the film and Mithun Chakraborty in a supporting role. The movie will also be dubbed in Tamil and Telugu. The film's score and soundtrack will be composed by A.R. Rahman, an acclaimed composer who has provided music for all of Ratnam's movies since his debut in the film.
Guru is the story of a 16-year-old school drop out from a village, whose first assignment was as a petrol bunk attendant in Istanbul. He comes back to India with very small savings but rises slowly, to become the path breaking industrialist and the richest man of the country over a span of 40 years.
At a time just after the Indian Independence where the difference between the rich and the poor was huge, where the businesses were controlled to a large extent by licenses and quotas, a visionary broke several rules, traveled on the borderline of legality, but brought with him the middleclass of India to a meteoric rise they had never experienced before. He was called the ‘Guru of business’.
GURU is the story of this controversial hero. Sujatha is the woman behind this controversial Guru.
Sujatha, a girl from his village, a rebel. She is a woman caught in the shackles of post independence India who asserts her independence. She is strong willed and does not bow down to meaningless laws laid down by society. She grows to love her husband Guru passionately. Through the modest beginning in a one room flat in a chawl in Bombay, shared by Guru, Sujatha and her brother and the struggle that follows, Sujatha is his pillar of strength and his first critic and greatest admirer.
. According to Gulzar, the lyricist of the film, the music in the film will be very different. Cinematography for the movie is handled by
, who has worked with Mani Ratnam previously as cinematographer in the film
. The movie has been said to be a matured love story. It is set to start shooting sometime in April or May 2006 in London and is slated for a November 2006 release. According to recent reports, the film is set in the 1960s . Ratnam is said to start his next project with Aamir Khan after this film.
Cast
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aishwarya Rai
- Vidya Balan
- Mallika Sherawat
- Mithun Chakraborty
- R Madhavan
- Arya babbar
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