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The Guru (2003)
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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:50
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: A sweetly silly but wafer-thin romantic comedy.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content including dialogue, and for language
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jan 31, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $2,867,996
Synopsis:
Only a guru could have predicted the fate awaiting Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry), a young Indian dance teacher with the best moves in Delhi. Mesmerized by a friend's promise of a New York penthouse and...
Only a guru could have predicted the fate awaiting Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry), a young Indian dance teacher with the best moves in Delhi. Mesmerized by a friend's promise of a New York penthouse and a red Mercedes, India's Tony Manero gives up the comforts of home to become a star in America. But the road to fame in New York is no magic carpet ride and Ramu winds up in a crowded Queens walk-up apartment, waiting tables at an Indian restaurant and scrambling for any audition that comes along.
Still, good fortune can arise from strange places as Ramu discovers when a catering gig at a ditzy socialite's (Marisa Tomei) birthday party catapults him into an extravagant version of the American dream. Mistaken for a spiritual healer, Ramu becomes an overnight celebrity with the city's elite hanging onto his every word - no matter how absurd. The trouble is, he's also falling in love with the one woman (Heather Graham) who knows the real source of his seemingly profound insights and Ramu must choose between his newfound notoriety and his love for a woman who accepts him as he is.
Bollywood meets Hollywood in The Guru, an exuberantly comic tale of culture clash from Universal Pictures and Working Title Films. The Guru stars Heather Graham (From Hell), Marisa Tomei (In the Bedroom), Jimi Mistry (East is East), Christine Baranski (Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and Michael McKean (Best in Show), as well as Dash Mihok (The Perfect Storm) and Malachy McCourt (Green Card).
Starring: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Christine Baranski
Starring: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Christine Baranski, Michael McKean, Malachy McCourt, Dash Mihok
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Screenwriter: Tracey Jackson
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Michael London
Composer: David Carbonara
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Reviews for The Guru
Belos figurinos, boas seqüências musicais (embora em número insuficiente para servir como referência a Bollywood) e Marisa Tomei de lingerie - estes são os pontos fortes do filme. Os pontos fracos? Todo o resto.
This American version of a Bollywood musical is one of the worst films I have run across in the last few years.
. . .a noble effort to bring the thrills of Bollywood to America, but this magic carpet never quite gets off the ground because it traffics in too many cinematic clichés. . .
A film whose good heart and musical numbers are much bigger than its shortcomings.
mixes the exuberance of Bollywood with measured lunacy of 30s screwball comedies and adds just a dash of “The Joy of Sex”
Too timid for its own good, relying too often on bawdy gags, easy clichés and hoary stereotypes.
There's not a whole lot of heft to von Scherler Mayer's romantic comedy with ethnic Indian entanglements; it's like overdone naan, too flaky and ephemeral for its own good, but still somehow appetizing.
... those modest virtues can't prevail against the coarse jokes and shabby ethnic stereotypes of Tracey Jackson's disjointed script, Daisy von Scherler Mayer's unsteady direction, or the unflattering cinematography.
...a clunky, idiotic, laughless and amateurish collection of scenes targeted to people who have the intellect of mattress springs.
Although the film is loaded with potential and many satirical targets, the execution of the material leaves a lot to be desired.
"The Guru" is a light and frothy concoction that is a tasty little treat with its heart in the right place.
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