Guru

I stopped watching Tamil films for a while. It should be less than 5 or 4, I had seen, from the last 5 years. Because, we seriously fed up with all these nonsense masala stuffs that easily dull us.

Guru

I saw this movie’s Hindi Trailer few months back. First time, I worried for not knowing Hindi! :-) This is the kind of film, I always thirst to see. Luckily, it was dubbed in Tamil too. However, Maniratnam refuses that the story is not about ‘Thirubai Ambani’, I am sure it is about him only. Mani has customized Ambani’s story in line with his imagination. The story starts from 1950 and spans across next fifty years. In a single sentence, the story is “(guru) VILLAGER (becomes) VISIONARY (becomes) WINNER”. As the story begins some 50 years back, they had done lots of work in lightings and sets, it seems!

Guru leaves his village, and reaches Bombay for setting up his business. We could see how Bombay stock market was in early 50s in this film. They use chalk-piece and blackboards to list the share prices in those days! Guru suffers to become a trader among them; he becomes and then grows like Giant. Madhavan, a reporter, casually comes into scenes, and strip-nakes Guru’s other face – that is, all the unethical short-cuts Guru used in his business. Aiswaryarai’s character – one should have a life-partner like her in life! It was that much touching.

Abishek Bachan – the tall guy in safari, resembles the one who was really meant in the film :-) Mani has sculpted him as what he imagined.

Mani has written dialogues in his own way. Every character drops words, not actually speaks! J I liked every frame – it was that colorful. I was keenly looking at every character, what they speak out, because one can hear such touching dialogues in his film only.

I really wonder how Guru could justify his deeds in the Climax. When there are people who came up in ethical ways, how could he justify his unethical behaviors? Anyway, this is cinema and Guru is hero!

After a quite big gap, I am very much satisfied of seeing a ‘Tamil Film’.