I fully agree with Raja Sen's rating. Three stars is generous for this movie. Of course, it cannot be called a bad film, but definitely not good enough to sit through it fully. And it confirms that Abhishek sells purely on his name, than abilities.
check out india.fm ...GURU big hit..london spectators had given standing ovation for the movie !!!!! mr. raja sen sucks,..he is truly insane to reveiw movie..kindly SACK him ...the movie easily deserve 4 star !
RE:Mithun-da Rocks!
by SuperStar on Jan 23, 2007 12:44 AM
dheraj abishek will get all awards this year..;watch out ..then tell me ..ur post is so silly !
I watched Guru last night in a house-full theatre in Singapore. It was a great movie. Mani Ratnam really knows how to bring the best out of Abhishek, who turned in a brilliant performance. Aishwarya didn't quite look like an illiterate gaon ki gori, but was adequate. Mithun was good, so were all the other supporting actors. I didn't quite see why Vidya Balan was in the movie, except perhaps to show the softer side of Guru. Madhavan's role could have been stronger. A few too many songs, but they were tuneful and nicely picturised and so, not too irksome. But above all, it was a one-man show: Abhishek was superb! Hats off to Mani Ratnam for making a thought-provoking, thoroughly engrossing movie!
RE:Great watch!
by Fareeda on Jan 26, 2007 02:09 PM
Ur right ....Abhishek actually proved his acting skills through yuva and he's improved a lot than from yuva ...he truly deserves to be applauded so does mani ratnam..Im a great fan of his tamil movies
well...i don't know what the fuss the about! certainly a very mediocre movie with flawed ideals. very average to below average acting from every one except Mithun C.
this movie seems to glorify dowery, bribery, tax evasion which can easily be called as one worst evils of todays indian society.
RE:Worst and Most hyped movie in a long time!
by usman khawaja on Jan 22, 2007 06:49 AM
i agree with you absolutely spot on and mt sen was charitable to give it 3 stars deserves 1and a half
RE:Worst and Most hyped movie in a long time!
by AJ Singh on Jan 26, 2007 01:14 AM
People like Sonal are non-practical , idealists who don't know squat about how business is done. Agreed that it should not be compared to Gandhi's ideals, but no doubt its a great movies and Mani Rathnam has proved it in the past and again that he is a great filmmaker. I am pretty sure, Sonal and Usman belong to the dumb-ass club who watch Karan Johar, SRK, and Aditya Chopra crap. If your stupid brain, can't take a good movie, don't criticize the movie for your stupidity. As for Raja Sen, he gets reviews spot on sometitmes, sometimes he doesn't, plus he is a wannabe, which is not necesarily a bad thing, but not so original at times. The movies is a narration on Guru not a critique.
RE:Worst and Most hyped movie in a long time!
by on Jan 23, 2007 08:39 AM
Mind that this film has indian background. Did you live in India at all? What a honest man can achive in a country like India? The paradox with India is that you have to be little corrupt to do something for the other people.Days of Gandhiji passed long time back.
Wake up!!!!
This is an excellent movie. Each of the actors irrespective of length of the role performed well.
Dialogues are so meaningful and relevant.
Raja sen has no sense and no brains. It is easy to write reviews but difficult to make movies.
Khalid Mohammed critises all the films but given a chance he made 2 horrible films which nobody would like to watch.
I have an explanation for the continuous lack of merit/judgement shown by the Rediff movie analysts. My verdict is Rediff reviewers are manipulating the rediff fans' emotions to increase their web traffic and the time they spend in the site. This they achieve by putting down good films like Guru and praising bad films like Risk. This they know will increase the passion of the common internet folks and would force them to react and hence increase the popularity of Rediff review team and the rediff site. Raja Sen like people want cheap publicity and the possible performance bonus with that. Rediff Editors are not worried about the validity of anything published as long as they meet the required revenue and growth targets for the site.
Let's analyze each professional at Rediff on his incentives and compensation and try to rationally explain his actions.
Rediff Chief Editor -------------------
Performance criteria - Growth in the web traffic to Rediff and possibly the revenue in ad hostings that increase with traffic.
Incentive misalignment - Objectivity in the review reports and truth.
Hence Chief Editor may not be worried about fairness or truth in the reviews.
Reviewers ---------
Performance targets - Increase the traffic for their reports.
Incentives - Positive for growth in traffic to the reports. Neurtal for Good and valid report. Another misalignment that forces people like Raja Sen to be controversial rather than genuine.
How should Rediff change this? ------------------------------ If a journalist reviews a movie, his compensation for the review should be tied to the popular verdict on the movie like BoxOffice performance or the Average Critics Rating for the movie. This will force the reviewer to be honest and truthful. Rediff will also benefit from the increased reputation among its readers.
mani ratnam is a protagonist of indian cinema , his dilse was a bold new experiment , nayakan was a milestone ,even amoes perroes adaptation yuva was bearable , but im afraid barring the locations , music lyrics and costumes the only saving grace is cinematography . the acting is mediocre as the none of the characters are even semi developed ,all the more ironical as its based on a biopic , the parallel would be scorcessees last tycoon with de niro which itself only partially worked but this movie suffers even more , the worst roles are given to ashwriya balan and mithun , they seem to be coming on and off as if there presence is no t required , the main character as played by abhisheh lacks the killer instinct and dynamism required bya self made crooked tycoon , the sequences wof marital disharmony and pregnancy , as well as childbirth are absolutely in bad taste , the two characters comparing there tummies was the worst scene ive seen in recent times , im afraid even the quarrel is technically flawed , abhishek and ash are standing opposite each other arguing and a whole tram goes through theit midst , it was hilarious , the climak though was the wiorst part , a man who was aphasic two months ago suddenly starts making public speeches like pandit nehru . i wonder if abishek has a three movie contract with ranam like he had with dutta which im glad is now over , if so well have to suffer another abhishek ratnam movie as bad as umrao , but if i was mithun or vidya balan id be suing mr ratnam for giving me the worst deal ever any artists can be given . a very mediocre film overhyped by bachans and mr adarsh who likes his bread buttered anyway and the claims of amitabh pumping money to hype it must be correct , by the way was there any need of the item number with a nude mallika doing a silly cabaret , no match for beeri , mr ratnam didnt even learn from omkara , as for the brilliant song jaago it has totally been wasted and gulzar and arrehman must be seething . a movie as disappointing as kabhi alvida na kehna despite a good visual style , better luck next time mani ratnam as i do respect you for dilse and nayakan .
RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by AJ Singh on Jan 26, 2007 01:23 AM
Usman , so you respect Mani Ratnam for Dil Se but not for Yuva or Guru, right?? I think you don't like the fact that a non-muslim star is finally on the rise :)
RE:RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by usman khawaja on Feb 13, 2007 08:16 AM
singh ji you are a bigot neither kamlahasan nor ajay devgan are muslims but u pick dilsea and srk
RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by Gyanendra rai on Jan 30, 2007 12:19 AM
A crap like kabhi alvida na kehna can be compared to Guru??? Usman use ur brain not emotions!
RE:RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by usman khawaja on Feb 12, 2007 04:01 AM
that because both guru and abishek are crap too and that religion angle is getting very boring find some logical reasons to my criticism
RE:RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by usman khawaja on Feb 13, 2007 08:14 AM
aj singh u r a bigoted idiot , ajay devgan is much better vthen thar useless abishek , is he muslim or kamalahassan too is he muslim
RE:RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by usman khawaja on Feb 12, 2007 04:03 AM
thats because guru and abhishek were both crap too , answer my critisms rather then start picking at religion
RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by SuperStar on Jan 23, 2007 12:43 AM
dont write so long..i never believe anything u say..u are purely trying to degrade the movie..maybe u dun like mani or abishek..watever it is ..the MOVIE is BIG HIT in overseas..check out india.fm !
RE:guru sends the wrong signals to an already corrupt society
by AJ Singh on Jan 26, 2007 01:20 AM
I think (pretty sure) Usman is a big SRK fan, but he just can't digest, Abhishek dilivering and knock-out performance in a Mani film. I think , this fact bothers him even more, when SRK's acting was total crap in Dil Se (when Mani made a mistake of picking SRK) and most of the movies that he has been in for a long time. Like it or not Usman , Abhishek's star is finally shining and he is gonna do good , doesn't matter when idiots like you like it or not.
I went to watch the movie with extremely high expectations, but was totally disgusted. Abhishek s acting was terrible. I there is an award for "worst actor", he should get it. Aishwarys just repeated her Devdas moves and was an excellent show piece. There was absolutely no flow in the story. Just some isolated incidents with a few cacophonic songs thrown in. Rehman should be banned from Bollywood. He just cannot give tunes on which suitable Hindi words can be written. Even Gulzar has struggled to give sane sounding lyrics. The way the media is going Ga Ga over the movie, it seems that Mani Ratnam has developed some rapport with them.
RE:The movie was pure bull
by vivek krishnan on Jan 22, 2007 08:28 PM
are you new to bollywood movies or rather i think its not the fault of the movie makers or associates i think its a problem with ur mind which u sld really get checked before u start criticising urself. piss off u suck big time dude.
RE:The movie was pure bull
by on Jan 21, 2007 10:16 AM
Guru movie is different, Coool different.......Much better than those kinda movies where we just copy americans....
RE:The movie was pure bull
by on Jan 21, 2007 10:16 AM
Guru movie is different, Coool different.......Much better than those kinda movies where we just copy americans....
I went to watch the movie with extremely high expectations, but was totally disgusted. Abhishek s acting was terrible. I there is an award for "worst actor", he should get it. Aishwarys just repeated her Devdas moves and was an excellent show piece. There was absolutely no flow in the story. Just some isolated incidents with a few cacophonic songs thrown in. Rehman should be banned from Bollywood. He just cannot give tunes on which suitable Hindi words can be written. Even Gulzar has struggled to give sane sounding lyrics. The way the media is going Ga Ga over the movie, it seems that Mani Ratnam has developed some rapport with them.
