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Ramu Gupta, a young Indian dance teacher with the best moves in Delhi embarks for New York City in pursuit of fame and fortune--only to wind up working as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. However, go...( read more 
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MCT:August 26, 2008Ramu Gupta (Mistry) leaves his family and his dance-instructor job behind to pursue his dreams of fame and fortune in America. Disillusionment sets in immediately when his homie Vijay (Marwa) meets Ramu in a yellow cab instead of the limo described in his letters, conveys him to a two-room ?penthouse? that they share with two other Indian immigrants, and gets Ramu a job as a waiter. Undaunted, Ramu hauls his headshots around town, winding up at Ramrod Productions. Having utterly mistaken the nature of this company?s films, Ramu strips down to his whitey-tighties and slays the producer with a spirited audition?Tom Cruise?s Risky Business dance number. This performance allows Dwain (McKean) to assess Ramu?s sizable ?talents,? cast him as the male lead in a porno film, opposite Ramrod?s star, Sharonna (Graham). Unfortunately, whenever the director calls ?action,? Ramu finds himself, shall we say, unprepared for thespian greatness.
To keep his job, Ramu gets Porn 101 tutoring from the thoroughly professional Sharonna, who?s pretending that her day job is substitute teaching in order to be worthy of her wholesome Catholic fiance (Mihok). When the Indian guru scheduled to sling some bullshit for a bunch of rich white partygoers conks out, the caterer gets Ramu to step in. Lacking readymade bullshit of his own, Ramu gives the partyers pseudomystical renditions of Sharonna?s sex tips, winning several converts on the spot, including the host?s daughter Lexi (Tomei), a hopeless follower of enlightenment fads. With Lexi?s drive and money and Sharonna?s sexual philosophy, Ramu becomes The Guru Of Sex.
And did I mention that this is a musical?
One of the happiest comebacks in movies, to my mind, is the return of the musical. The last couple of years have given us Moulin Rouge, 8 Women, Chicago, and now The Guru. The return of meringue-light entertainment is cause for celebration. A balanced film diet should have room for the serious, the heart-rending, the uplifiting, and the artistic as well as a bathing beauty and improbable synchronized water exercises or folks bursting into song. Some people make cinema and some make entertainment. Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl, Madeline, Woo) makes no bones about her work. She?s clearly here for the fun stuff. It?s tempting to place The Guru in the guilty-pleasures category, but why should we feel guilty? What, after all, did we learn from Sullivan?s Travels if not that a movie that provides a good laugh is a good day?s work? Mayer does a good day?s work indeed, providing an engaging romance, a fun comedy, and cool musical numbers, as well as an unforgettable valentine to Grease by way of Bollywood.
In The Guru, we get a very good laugh from the old old story of two people pretending to be what they are not, all the while falling in love with each other (and singing and dancing). There are absolutely no plot surprises here, from the scene where they almost kiss to the big public confession scene (this one on ?Sally Jesse Raphael?) to the big public declaration-of-love scene. The Guru is totally a boilerplate romantic comedy, but it?s such an imaginatively and entertainingly festooned boilerplate that it?s okay. Naturally everything?s going to come out all right in the end. And like Jump Tomorrow, another wonderful multi-cultural romance, it comes out all right for everybody.
In the best tradition of movies about the porn industry, The Guru adds amusing euphemisms to the growing lexicon of auto-eroticism. Heather Graham?s sweet porn star in this rather broad comedy is a far cry from Boogie Nights? Roller Girl. Christine Baranski is very good as Lexi?s mocking, rich bitch mother, who gets her? comeuppance.
Remember that moment when Marshall McLuhan stepped out from behind that sign and corrected an insufferable blowhard in Annie Hall, and Woody Allen said, ?If only life were really like this!? Well I say, if only real life gave us opportunities to respond to day-to-day situations with song and dance. -
MCT:May 18, 2008wow what a very funny movie...this is a good comedy movie...heather graham is really fit n sexxi n she plays a good character throughout this movie...jimi mistry is very funny as "The Guru" Of this movie..this has a good cast of actors/actressess throughout the movie...this is a really funny movie 2 watch...the director of this movie done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie
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MCT:November 23, 2007
Pretty funny stuff and the chance to ogle Heather so I'm right in there with this one.
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MCT:September 11, 2007
This is actually funnier than it looks. Sure, it's not strenuous stuff, but you will be amused.
It looks a bit racist, which it is, but hey, so was 'South Park' and 'Team America', and if they can be seen as funny, so can this.
I was amazed to hear of Marisa Tomei's Oscar win. And this was many years BEFORE 'The Guru', so it isn't an issue of getting better. She was definitely not bad, but certainly not Oscar - worthy. I will judge when I have seen more of her work.
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MCT:August 16, 2007
LOL. This movie mite look like as if it's crapola but it's actually way better than what it looks on the cover. It's funny, lovable, adorable & really, really good, lol. I trully enjoyed it.
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MCT:July 29, 2007
Bollywood crashes headlong into Hollywood in the surprisingly charming film The Guru (2002). Jimi Mistry (Blood Diamond 2006) plays Ramu Gupta, a young Indian man with big hopes of becoming a movie star in America, but instead reaches fame as "the sex guru". Heather Graham (MTV Movie Award winner for Boogie Nights 1997) has her second go at playing a porn star, but this time with a heart of gold. Rounding out the cast are Marisa Tomei (Oscar winner for My Cousin Vinny 1992) and Michael McKean (Oscar nominee for A Mighty Wind 2003). And let's not forget Christine Baranski (Emmy winner for the series "Cybill" 1995), whose role was supposedly first offered to both Martha Stewart and Madonna. For all its silliness you can't help but like this movie. If not for all the sexual talk you'd swear this was made for the whole family to enjoy. Here's the official website.
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MCT:July 25, 2007really enjoyed the sing-along and dancing scene. typical of bollywood movies, and it looked hillarious on a hollywood movie
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MCT:July 23, 2007the guru you see is the guru in you.real love is that your heart beats for it.our dreams from our hearts not from mind.
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MCT:June 20, 2007
Jimi Ministry is the SEX GURU, In this really funny comedy about a mistake that makes a struggling actor into a major icon,ten points to the movies Grease reference..
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MCT:June 20, 2007This movie always makes me giggle but I love it so much. A beautiful story of rags to riches and an emotional roller-coaster.
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MCT:June 16, 2007
I have no idea why so many great movies ruin the story w/ unneeded material. I guess its up to the audience to decide. I loved everything except the adult themed thread ran throughout the movie.
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MCT:May 31, 2007
Heh. Very goofy. I was surprised when this made me laugh and it managed to do that more than once.
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MCT:May 20, 2007
The best comedy you've never seen! Rent it tonight. "Grease"-loving, western culture adoring Ravi leaves India with only the love of dance in his heart. He hooks up with misguided socialite Marisa Tomei and takes lessons from porn star Heather Graham on how to be a sex guru. Cheesy Bollywood musical numbers only add to the fun. You'll be singing for days.
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MCT:May 9, 2007
This movie is SO funny especially if you know how a typical Indian movie is like, plus it has a little cheesy romantic element to it at the end which is a plus in my book. :]
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MCT:April 25, 2007Not sure if i want to watch an american version of Bollywood but dam its got Graham and Tomei, might be worth it to watch them strut there stuff
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MCT:April 20, 2007
Not really well known, but hilarious. The dancing is great, Heather Graham is precious, and Marissa Tomei was funny.
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MCT:March 24, 2007
Pretty average tongue-in-cheek comedy. Heather Graham is well cast as a porn actress. Her acting range is suitable tiny. Don't go out of your way to see this.
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MCT:February 23, 2007
I just watched this the other day on TV and it's made me laugh so hard. It's actually got a cute story and some great musical (cheesy) numbers in it. If you like off the wall kinds of comedy, check this one out.
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MCT:February 16, 2007
I watched this on the movie channel a couple times and liked it ......but I watched it again recently on DVD and it was too corny for me I think .....still some funny parts though
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MCT:December 19, 2006
Maybe it worked for some people..... some parts may have been...worth a... twitch- but in all honesty, what is the point of this film?
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