By Solitaire PlayBoy, January 29, 2007 - 04:41 IST 4 of 4 people found this review helpful
GURU represents a laborious piece of work from Mani Ratnam and his cast. Abhishek Bachan's performance is undoubtedly on of the tremendous efforts any bolyywood actor could come up with. Finally a boy showing up the quality of his genes inherited from his father, Amitabh Bachan.
For the first time there is a real threat to SRK's king position: this is the time. Hrithik Roshan natural showman and handsome walk here and there in films were never enough challenging to threaten the fine acting efforts of SRK who has always been ambitious an effort-giving in acting. But now with the resurrection of the Abhishek Bachan, there is time for worries. The next actor to rule has come, and its time to recognise what is good acting skills, and a true actor. Since films like Raju bn gaya Gentleman ,Lagaan, Devdas, its only now that have been able to watch again a new identify in an indian film.
What I liked about the movie:
The movie's direction, screenplay and fine art. The start is tremendous. After Malika's dance, the names appear from type writer effects, with the background sound mixing with the music. Abhishek's performance and ability to match that of Mithun Da' is excellent.
What I didn't like about the movie:
The movie climax has been inspired from the film 'The Aviator'. In the aviator, the rich Dicaprio has to confront the panel of jury same way ABhishek has had to in GURU. Anybody who has watch 'The Aviator' can extrapolate the relation from these two films.The weak part of the film really comes in the end. It seems like it went a bit of nonsense when the white jury member eventually admits that "GURU has got some arguments". That was funny. And what became more ridiculous was the inability of the story writer or dialogue writer to prvide to the character to defend, in LAW terms, to the jury. The character's reply could have had more sense.
Would you recommend this movie to your friend: Yes
