20072h 46mDir. Mani Ratnam

Guru

Name: Guru
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2007-01-12
Duration: 2 h 46 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, R. Madhavan, Vidya Balan

“Think big, think ahead and think fast.”

DramaRomance

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A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.

Starring:Abhishek Bachchan,Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,Mithun Chakraborty,R. Madhavan,Vidya Balan

Featured Cast

(12 actors)

Abhishek Bachchan

Gurukanth Desai

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Sujata Desai

Mithun Chakraborty

Manik Dasgupta

R. Madhavan

Shyam Saxena

Vidya Balan

Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena

Arya Babbar

Jignesh

Mallika Sherawat

Champa

Prathap Pothan

K R Menon I.A.S.

Sachin Khedekar

Sujata's Father

Manoj Joshi

Ghanshyam Bhai

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Contractor Sahaab

Nina Kulkarni

Sujata's Mother

Key Production Crew

Director

Mani Ratnam

Screenplay & Writers

Mani Ratnam, Mani Ratnam, Vijay Krishna Acharya, N. Azhagamperumal

Cinematography

Rajiv Menon

Original Score

A.R. Rahman

Producers

Mani Ratnam, G. Srinivasan

Film Details

Budget$4,700,000

Box Office Revenue$31,000,000

Original Languagehi

Production Studios

Madras Talkies

Keywords & Themes

#biography#idealism#tycoon#industrialist#rise to power

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Aniket Shukla @aniket11

Oct 13, 2026

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4.0

“When people start talking against you … then you are making progress.” My second Mani Ratnam film!!! This one says greed ain’t always evil sometimes it’s the fuel to climb that damn mountain, even if the path’s mess...

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