Film
Guru
குரு
2007
About
Inspired by the life of Dhirubhai Ambani — an ambitious village boy rises to build a business empire, bending rules at every turn and facing a reckoning before a public tribunal. Mani Ratnam's most expansive Hindi film: a portrait of post-Independence Indian capitalism, ambition, and the blurry line between vision and corruption. Abhishek Bachchan's career peak.
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Guru is Mani Ratnam's most nuanced look at ambition — he refuses to make Gurukant Desai simply a hero or a villain. The film is a portrait of modern India's contradictions: the hunger to rise, the compromises required, and the question of whether the ends justify the means. A. R. Rahman's score is magnificent.
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