The Guru
- Original title
- The Guru
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 94 min.
- Country
United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Heather Graham
- Marisa Tomei
- Jimi Mistry
- Christine Baranski
- Michael McKean
- Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Emil Marwa
- Dash Mihok
- Pat McNamara
- Malachy McCourt
- Dwight Ewell
- Ajay Naidu
- Ronald Guttman
- Anita Gillett
- Sakina Jaffrey
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Sexuality & Porn
- Synopsis
- Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew up in India on a steady diet of movie musicals, particularly local Bollywood spectaculars and vintage American song-and-dance films. Ramu grew up with the dream of one day making it big as a dancer, and in time he found a job as a dance instructor. However, Raimu believes his destiny lies in the United States, and he leaves India behind to relocate to New York City. Unfortunately, Ramu's bright new future isn't exactly awaiting him, and he's soon sharing an overstuffed apartment with distant relatives in Queens while working in an Indian restaurant. An audition for a film director named Dwain (Michael McKean) turns out to be a tryout for a porno movie -- a role Ramu does not get when he fails to rise to the occasion. However, he does make the acquaintance of one of Dwain's "starlets," Sharona (Heather Graham), with whom he soon finds himself infatuated. Ramu gets a job entertaining guests at a party catered by his relatives when the performer originally booked is incapacitated. While Ramu's Bollywood-style dancing goes over well enough, he makes a deeper impression on Lexi (Marisa Tomei), an enthusiastic but half-bright student of Eastern philosophy who regards Ramu a font of wisdom as well as a hot date. Ramu quickly becomes the toast of New York's upper crust, and scores an agent, Josh (Rob Morrow), but how long will it be before folks realize Ramu is rather low on the enlightenment scale? And can he find happiness with Sharona while Lexi is still in the picture?
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- Critics' reviews
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"Hits more laughs than it misses and its characters are likable, empathetic people"
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"It's a film pregnant with comic possibility that ought to be much funnier than it is"
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"A generally entertaining but rather old-fashioned romantic comedy."
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