Infectious and exuberant and occasionally naughty.
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02/13/03
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Christine Baranski
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Reviews for The Guru
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02/09/03
Delightful screwball comedy.
02/07/03
It's as if somebody dropped three bad scripts on the floor of a production office, and somebody else picked up the pages in random order and said, 'Let's make a movie out of this! And let's get Heather Graham to star!'
02/03/03
Works better than it probably should thanks mainly to a ready-for -anything lead performance by the ridiculously charismatic Jimi Mistry and equally game performances from an amusing supporting cast including Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei.
02/03/03
Top CriticIs this goofy? Oh yeah. But it’s a grownup kind of goofy that will leave you grinning from ear to ear.
02/02/03
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02/02/03
Although the story may sound promising, it keeps falling as flat as Ramu's ... well, let's not go there.
02/01/03
If you are interested in Bollywood movies, go see a Bollywood movie.
02/01/03
A harmless little sex comedy that's never as funny as you wish but marginally better than the effluent that's gushing out of the studio pipeline this month.
02/01/03
All of this makes for some very entertaining if lightweight goings-on.
02/01/03
Agreeable and slipshod in equal fashion.
01/31/03
Top CriticIt feels like an upstart indie, thanks to its original script, endearing performances, colourful aesthetic, uplifting soundtrack, parodic undertones and the compelling theme of ethnic assimilation.
01/31/03
Mistry and co-star Heather Graham lend a fetching naivete to their characters.
01/31/03
As a satire of charismatic cult movements, Tracey Jackson's screenplay merely toys with the possibilities.
01/31/03
Such a delightfully silly masala of Hollywood genre conventions, Bollywood fantasy and porn movie stupidity that it's beside the point to wish it had lived up to its original conception.
01/31/03
The resulting fluff might seem fairly plastic next to, for example, Deepa Mehta's Hollywood Bollywood. But The Guru is reasonably crowd-pleasing nonetheless.
01/31/03
The actors do all they can to make up for the limp script.
01/31/03
Although it could've pushed the envelope and been so much more, it still manages to be entertaining.
01/31/03
If laughs were calories, The Guru would be the equivalent of a Weight Watchers breakfast bar.
01/31/03
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