STORY: Gurukant Desai (Abhishek) goes to Istanbul, dances with Mallika and returns to his village hoping to set up a business. He marries Sujata (Ash) only because with the dowry money he gets to set up his own business. He rises, rises and rises till he gets a paralysis attack. In between he sings songs with Ash, takes takkar with Mithunda, has weird talks with Vidya Balan about marrying her, sings another bhaang wala song etc etc.
REVIEW: This film belongs to Abhishek. Period. He carries the sometimes shaky film, with great panache - even the negative shades of his characters are wonderfully potrayed. Ash is just about tolerable while Mithun is first-rate. Yes, the film is clearly based on Dhirubhai's life. And what's with the final speech of Guru - a guy who runs international petrochemicals business doesn't understand terms like "excise" when spoken in English? A pacy first half, a slow second half, some excessive melodrama and a letdown of a climax is what sums up this film. EDIT PLEASE: The unnessecary bhaang wala song, after the birth of Guru's twin daughters, is completely ghusaoed in the movie. Please, please cut that out - it sticks out like a hair in biryani. WHAT?: A wheelchair bound Vidya Balan kisses on-screen. Full on lip-to-lip, baba! Call me names, but I found it kinky. Also what's with the obsession with rains - Ash's entry, Vidya's kiss, shareholders meeting, first factory set up - it rains in virtually half of the movie. People actually clapped in the theatre, when Ash & Abhishek got married in the film. http://www.mtvindia.com/mtv/movies/reviews/07/guru/index.php
