Guru (2007) on Netflix
Gurukant Desai leaves his Gujarat village to work in Turkey, then returns set on a business of his own. He marries Sujata for her dowry and takes her and Jignesh to Bombay.
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Plot summary
In 1951, Gurukant Desai lives in Idar, a village in Gujarat, where his father, the headmaster Kantilal, tells him that dreams of wealth do not come true. Guru goes to Turkey, works in the spice trade and for Burmah Shell, then turns down a promotion and returns home to work for himself. With no capital, he marries Sujata, the older sister of his friend Jignesh, because her dowry can fund a venture, and the three move to Bombay to trade textiles. Licenses and quotas there belong to a small group of established families, and Guru meets resistance from Arzan Contractor and the official K. R. Menon. The newspaper publisher Manikdas Gupta, called Nanaji, mentors him through those early lean years.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Guru (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Guru was widely speculated to be a biopic of industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani, and the parallels are close: like Guru, Ambani was a Gujarati schoolteacher's son who went abroad to work for the Shell gas company and returned home to import polyester.
- Guru became the first Indian film to have a mainstream international première in Canada when it premièred at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto on 11 January 2007, in an event presented by Roger Nair.
