Guru

Jan 12, 2007

2h 46m

★ 6.8

Think big, think ahead and think fast.

Overview

A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Madras Talkies

Guru Trailers

Cast

Gurukanth Desai

Abhishek Bachchan

Sujata Desai

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Manik Dasgupta

Mithun Chakraborty

Shyam Saxena

R. Madhavan

Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena

Vidya Balan

Jignesh

Arya Babbar

Champa

Mallika Sherawat

K R Menon I.A.S.

Prathap Pothan

Sujata's Father

Sachin Khedekar

Ghanshyam Bhai

Manoj Joshi

Contractor Sahaab

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Sujata's Mother

Nina Kulkarni

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