You ought to be enormously talented to understand the nuances of the character and Abhishek deserves the highest praise for reliving a complex role. You smile when he smiles, you cry when he cries you relive every single emotion that the character experiences. Only goes to show that the actor involves you at every step with a stupendous performance.
From a sharp teenager in Turkey to the biggest entrepreneur of the country, Abhishek handles the various shades this character demands with adroitness. He takes a giant leap with this film!
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GURU has many things to make you excited.
1. It is directed by the Guru of direction, Mani Ratnam.
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Music is by the Guru of music industry, A R Rahman.
3. It is rumored to be based on the life of the business Guru, Dhirubhai Ambani.
The movie is about life of Gurukant Desai (Abhishek Bachchan), a dreamer, who lives in a small village and believes in dreaming high. The movie shows how GURU becomes India s top businessman from a small time worker in Turkey. You will find many similarities between the character GURU and Dhirubhai Ambani, be it paralysis attack or being constantly in the news with various allegations.
The movie is shown in 3 phases, Phase 1, the young Guru who leaves India for Turkey to earn more. Phase 2, the young matured Guru, who leaves his job in Turkey and comes back to India to start his own business. And Phase 3, a middle aged businessman, who is top businessman in India and does not believe in looking back.
From the beginning itself the movie does not let you move for a single minute, the music, the cinematography, the direction and finally the acting. Everything is just on the right place and very well balanced. I think this movie will be a milestone for Abhishek Bachchan as his acting abilities have been explored very well.
This will be the best role of his career so far. Aishwarya Rai played the role of a very simple innocent girl from a small village. And she played it very well.
But the movie totally belongs to Abhishek Bachchan.
LONDON, England (Reuters) Stephen Frears The Queen, portraying a confused monarch at the time of Princess Diana s death in 1997, led the way with 10 nominations on Friday at Britain s top film awards.
As expected, leading lady Helen Mirren, already a frontrunner for a best actress Oscar, was among the BAFTA nominees for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II.
The film leads James Bond thriller Casino Royale on nine nominations, including best actor for Daniel Craig, widely praised for bringing a touch of reality to the world s most famous spy.
Craig will be up against Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed, Richard Griffiths in The History Boys, Peter O Toole in Venus and Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, in which he portrays brutal Ugandan leader Idi Amin.
The Queen is joined by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu s Babel, The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese, The Last King of Scotland and low-budget beauty pageant comedy Little Miss Sunshine in the best film category.
In the best actress category, Mirren is up against fellow British veteran Judi Dench for her role in school sex drama Notes on a Scandal, Penelope Cruz for her widely praised performance in Volver, Meryl Streep in fashion comedy The Devil Wears Prada, and Kate Winslet in Little Children.
Pan s Labyrinth , a fantasy set in Spain during World War Two, garnered eight BAFTA nominations, Babel , starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, won seven, and The Departed , Little Miss Sunshine and Sept. 11 drama United 93 each won six.
Guru is the stuff of dreams, the fluff of escapism. It is cinema where protagonists succeed defying all odds and where young gophers in Shell tracksuits go on to address stadium-fulls of adoring shareholders. And, it comes complete with songs, thrown in with abrupt abandon.
Except, because this is Bollywood, we ve seen it all before. Rags to riches tales abound in the unreal song-and-dance world our stars jiggle around in, and we have seen protagonists come from nowhere to become superheroes, just like we ve seen them fight 81 gangsters armed with their mother s blessings. Dare to dream, it announces proudly, but isn t that the moral of pretty much every masala Bollywood pikchur?
Then again, Guru is a Mani Ratnam film. Which automatically ensures restraint and realism in the film and an almost hushed reverence in the audience. The film stops a few inches short of being a biopic, but the director bestows his character, Guru Kant Desai, with enough depth to make him feel as flesh-and-blood as you or me.
Sure, there are enough superficial similarities with real life business icons, but the film (sadly?) isn t about men who share a corporate logo uncannily similar to the hero, it s about Guru. Period.
And he s quite the character.
HOLY MOLY! Boman Irani .
Pankuj Kapoor .Om Puri in ONE MOVIE?:O!
Rakesh Roshan is ready to start his next film. And no it is not a sequel to Krrish. Neither does it star Hrithik Roshan.
Instead it stars Arshad Warsi. Surprised? Ok, let’s make the news believable now.
Well the Krrish sequel with Hrithik is very much happening but that’s later. Before that Rakesh Roshan plans to make another film but this time his role is just restricted to being a producer.
The as yet untitled film will be directed by Rakesh Roshan’s assistant Raja Sen and star Arshad Warsi as the male lead.
Interestingly Arshad Warsi plays the role of a mentally deranged character in the film. So is it like what Hrithik Roshan did in Koi Mil Gaya? Not really!
Here Arshad plays a complete mad man. The film will be shot in mid April and will also feature Boman Irani, Pankaj Kapoor and Om Puri.
So why not Hrithik when the film is being produced by Rakesh Roshan?
That’s because Hrithik is quite busy with his other commitments that include Jodha Akbar and the Krrish sequel.
Earlier, Rakesh Roshan has produced films like Asha, Aap Ke Deewane, Jag Utha Insaan and Bhagwan Dada which he did not direct. But after turning a director this is his production house Filmkraft’s first project that is being directed by someone other than him.
Looks like Rakesh Roshan too is all set to expand his production house in the likes of Yash Chopra and Karan Johar and is now open minded about hiring directors for his productions.
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One of RGV s FUNNIEST interviewers to date FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS! I love his response to the Ajay Devgan question! As crazy as he is, RGV can quiet be charming in the zaniest of ways:-)!
We gab about his Sholay, which is all quite stimulating, but then you’ve heard it all before in a million magz. I steer him towards his other film Nishabd – which he swears on my head (see, he doesn’t want me to live long) isn’t a lift from Lolita. You know that Nabokov classic in which an ageing Humbert flipped out over a seductress of a nymphet.
Bring Nishabd up and the Kathakali eyes of the 40-very-something filmmaker dance wildly. His words waltz, “I’ve got a feeling that you’ll be surprised… It’s your kind of a movie.
” Eeesh, and all these years, I’ve been trying to figure out this conundrum. Forget it, at this very instant I want to know
Your Nishabd is about a girl and a very much older man. Isn’t this true of you and your relationships in real life, my friend?
Arre, please let me remain young…as long as girls don’t realize this, what’s your problem? Please let me have fun.
MUMBAI: Adlabs formally announced that it had acquired worldwide distribution rights of critically acclaimed docudrama Black Friday, on Thursday.
The film will be distributed nationwide and overseas by Adlabs on 9 February, 2007. Black Friday, presented by Mid-Day Multimedia, is based on the events leading up to and the investigation following the 1993 bomb blasts that tore Mumbai apart.
Elaborating on the announcement, Adlabs Films COO-film distribution Sunir Kheterpal says, Black Friday is a bold and brave story that is waiting to be told to the Indian public and we are very happy to be facilitating its release on the scale and the platform that a film like Black Friday truly deserves.
The film was banned two years ago by the Mumbai High Court, despite the film having acquired a censor certificate. A petition filed by a group of persons accused under the 1993 bomb blasts case, had challenged the release of the film until the special TADA court delivered its judgment on the case. The judgment was delivered on 12 September 2006 and 100 of the 123 accused, including four members of prime accused Tiger Memon s family, were convicted.
The 1993 Mumbai blasts left 257 dead and 1400 injured and brought into the spotlight the mafia-terrorist nexus prevalent today. Based on S Hussain Zaidi s book on the same subject, the film takes one into the heart of the conspiracy behind the blasts and the massive follow-up investigation, by giving detailed accounts of planning, execution and back-end operations of the same.
MUMBAI: After being nominated as India s official entry to the Oscars, UTV produced Rang De Basanti, directed by Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra has now been nominated at this year s British Academy of Film Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards in the Film Not In English Language category.
BAFTA, which is the highest honor in Film and Television and is known to be British Oscars, announced their nominations today (12 January, 2007). Along with Rang De Basanti, the other films nominated in the same category are Apocalypto, Black Book, Pan s Labyrinth and Volver. The awards will be held on 11 February, 2007 at the Royal Opera House in London.
UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala says, “Rang De Basanti has touched the hearts and minds of viewers across the world. This BAFTA nomination is yet another affirmation of the fact that RDB is a film that transcends all boundaries of ethnicity and nationality and appeals to the basic humanity in all of us.”
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Dedicated to NG!
Every now and then comes a film huge in what it’s trying to portray, so powerful in its themes and ultimately so entertaining in the manner that it’s presented and ultimately connects to the viewer, the movie becomes an “event”. An unforgettable experience and one that will undoubtedly go down in history. I just experienced GURU, an “event” in the truest sense as far as the medium of cinema stretches.
Mani Ratnam-a name synonymous with class, quality, and classics brings to celluloid his latest magnum opus which came with sky high expectations and searing hype-does Ratnams vision live up to expectations? Yes, yes and yes!
Ratnam brings to screen a tale that is loosely based on the life of Indian entrepreneur Dhirubhai Ambani(although the disclaimer at the start states otherwise, the similarities in parts is just openly obvious) but in the process captivates the viewer with a lot more as he, in true Ratnam style, works the film on more than one level.
The movie starts in black and white (a masterstroke) with Gurukant Desai (Abhishek Bachchan) as a man in his 60’s delivering the films opening, and rousing lines. From there we’re transported via a flashback as we watch the rise of Gurukant Desai , the son of a school teacher from a modest family in Idhar (Gujarat). After failing his exams, he goes to work in Turkey selling oil as a working missionary.
There he realises that his dreams are much bigger than this, and despite repeated promotions and pay rises Guru realises that his dreams are much bigger than this, and rather than waste it on others(the “white man” in this instance) he decides to use it on him self to realise his dreams. In a sense, Istanbul works for Guru how South Africa worked for Mahatma Gandhi in a warped parallel of sorts.
This is a preview of “GURU” (Hindi, 2007)…The Event
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