Rating: 
Summary: Who needs self help books? Watch this video instead!
Review: I have never laughed so hard in my life! Jimi Mistry is a great talent and I can't wait to see more from him. Heather Graham & Marisa Tomei are NOT my favorite actresses, but both did great jobs in this movie. And you can't go wrong with Christine Baranksi & Michael McKean in supporting roles. Mistry plays a young man from India who follows a friend to America to pursue his dreams of becoming a star. After losing 2 horrible jobs (his audition for the porn flick was hysterical! So was the attempt at filming it), he's asked to be a substitute swami (the real one passed out drunk) at a party for people with more money than sense. They proceed to hail him as the "Guru of sex" and he DOES go on to become a star, just not the way he expected it to happen. There's lots more to the plot (including a love story- and a twist at the wedding) and lots of of fun scenes including a tribute to "GREASE". Highly recommended!
Rating: 
Summary: Funny Funny Funny
Review: i have seen it last August...its simply funny!!A light-hearted movie.If u r a person who sees the silver lining in every cloud..u will have fun watching it..if u r someone with a conspiracy theory mentality...you will hate it and cry east verses west!!!!Personally..i liked it and cant wait to get the dvd when its out.
Rating:
Summary: A great guilty pleasure!
Review: I love good satire, and a lot of things come under fire here. From the New Age craze and its wide-eyed gullibility when it comes to anything from the "exotic East", to the way Indian people are portrayed in film and television (or rather, the way they are ignored), "the Guru" touches on things that I've been noticing the last few years and been a bit bothered by. The musical sequences are fantastic good fun. In some ways, this is a terrible movie. Some of the dialogue is awful, and characters are often more like caricatures. (There are a few great one-liners, though, you have to admit.) But it's funny and fun to watch and sends up some issues that nobody else in film has ever seemed to want to talk about or acknowledge. I've never seen anything like it. That alone is something worth praising in the genre of all-too-often-stale-and-formulaic romantic comedies. There are the usual formulas here, but not at all in the ways you'd expect, and there's lots more going on too.
Rating:
Summary: Spectacular and uplifting!!!!
Review: I saw the movie the Guru twice while it was at the Film Festival here in Palm Springs, and I absolutely love the movie. It's a great uplifting film. It is hilariously funny throughout the movie. It's a very happy film with a message about finding ones path in life. The theatre gave it a standing ovation, everyone I went with loved the movie as well. I recommend it to all because I plan on buying this as soon as it comes out on DVD myself. And the music rocks!!!
Rating:
Summary: Jimi Mystry is wickedly funny!
Review: I think this movie is really funny while poking fun at American culture and the closed atmosphere of Hollywood. It was great to see a comedy featuring major Indian characters who weren't working at Quicky Marts. The premise is absurd, much of the story is implausible, but that is part of what makes this movie so fun. This is not meant to be a realistic romantic comedy. It is a fantastical sex comedy with some great acting, including the always magnificent Marisa Tomei.
Rating:
Summary: Very funny
Review: I took a chance ordering this on PPV, but I was not disappointed. I don't like Heather Graham at all, but her character--a relationship advice "guru" porno star was hilarious. Marisa Tomei's character was so warped that it just made you crack up. The highlight performance was Jim aka "The Guru". He dreams of becoming a big Hollywood star, yet gets turned into something that just doesn't fit him. It's a romantic comedy and a surprisingly wonderful movie. I recommend this for first dates.
Rating: 
Summary: maybe the worst movie I saw 2002
Review: I watched this movie at cinema. I expected maybe some funny india-joking. But this was plain dull. The only thing I remember was the girl I saw this with that I never wanted in the first place, but made out the whole second half of the movie because I had nothing else to do. It went straight to the videostores.
Rating: 
Summary: CINEMATIC CLICHE OF BUMPKINS, BY BUMPKINS, FOR BUMPKINS
Review: Imagine all possible outdated (by a decade or so) cliches that the western world will associate with India or Bollywood -- elephants on streets, wild dancing in bright colored Punjabi attire, goofy actors sporting a horribly egregious Indian accent -- all of them, and then some, are stuffed airtight into this cultural excuse for a movie. An East Indian (played by Mistry) comes to America with the hope of making it big in Hollywood (could we get any more unoriginal?), stumbles into a porn studio and a star therein posing as a Catholic virgin. Following an equally predictable turn of doozy events, fails to hit it off in Hollywood (surprise?). Siphons off his [prostitute] friend's philosophy about life and lands up in a fortuitous position as a high-priced "Guru" by regurgitating this advice to the noveau riche of America (who clearly are gullible enough to fall for anything with "Guru" associated with it). Amidst all this sillyness, a lovestory blooms between the [prostitute] and our newfangled wiseman. Mistry turns in a remarkably ludicrous performance, he can't even lipsynch to the songs if his life depended on it. Heather and Marisa, two admittedly hot numbers, are the minor saving graces of the movie. As is the occasional burst of pop hit singles. But neither the girls nor the lilting music manage to go too far in saving the utterly silly predicament. If you don't mind a creampuff comedy (and that's a dignified label) laden with ethnic cliches that managed to put forced smiles on people unfamiliar with the real India, then this may be worth your time. Otherwise, you won't miss much if you preserve your sanity and skip this turbaned freakshow.
Rating:
Summary: Highly entertaining and recommended
Review: It's funny how you can come upon movies. While on a plane
earlier in the week I saw (in parts) a movie I'd never watch
on my own, "Anger Mangement," which wasn't so bad. An actress
I'd never seen before, Heather Graham, had a small, uncredited
role. I tracked down "The Guru" from the Internet, and was
pleased that Marisa Tomei, who had a large role in the other
movie, was also in "The Guru." There is a bit of role reversal
here, for she has a much smaller role than Ms. Graham. I was
also attracted to "The Guru" because I've been into Eastern
teachings for a long time, but I am also quite aware of how
much fakery there is in the "guru" business. "The Guru" is in part a spoof on gurus and how rich people
who have nothing to do but meditate (on their navels!) will
believe just about anything. Imagine a Indian guru of sex, who
gets his information/inspiration from a porn star, yet thousands
of followers think he's wonderful! "The Guru" simply works. The lead actor, Jimi Mistry,
gives a great, believable, heart-felt performance. Ms. Graham
is also excellent - the role of a beautiful, deeply philosophical
porn star who is about to settle down with an unknowing fireman
into a mainstream life suits her to a tea. She also shows some
fine range in her role. The chemistry between the Indian
immigrant and the beautiful porn queen as teacher works
surprisingly well. Most of the secondary actors are very effective, especially the actor who plays Mistry's sidekick
(later manager). The movie is about truth, being true to oneself,
and true love. The dancing and music are entertaining, uplifting,
therapeutic. "The Guru" is a fine movie also because it doesn't
take itself too seriously, so we can easily forgive the "imperfections." I am very quick to criticize the garbage that the movie
industry puts out, but more than willing to praise and recommend
a very unpretentious, entertaining, fast-paced romp, and I
would recommend "The Guru" to almost anyone. It is a movie that
would appeal to almost all ages and all tastes. I wouldn't be
surprised if it does very well in its post-theatrical "incarnation"
through word-of-mouth recommendations.
Rating:
Summary: Fun Flick
Review: Leave your mind at home, have fun with the story. Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei and Jimi Mistry are fun to watch as the soundtrack will get your feet tapping.
| 
