[Averti$ingGuru]

Will ‘Guru’ do good at the box office?

This is my first attempt in documenting a prediction about how a particular movie will do at the Box Office before its release.

Someone who is in a way associated with Abhishek Bacchan-starring Mani Ratnam’s latest flick ‘Guru’ met me recently. The person’s major concern was, whether the movie will do well at the box office? And this gave me a chance to predict about the performance of a movie, which otherwise I have never done before.

I don’t have Mani Ratnam’s horoscope, but here I have tried to predict the performance of his next movie using his life pattern. He ran a very bad period since the year 2002, where two of his highly proclaimed movies bombed at the box office. Madhavan-Simran starring Kannathil Muttam Ittal, and Ayude Ezhuthu (Yuva in Hindi) were neither appreciated much by people nor by the media.

Moreover he was hospitalized in the same period for mild chest pain, and top of it, he lost his brother GV, who eventually had committed suicide due to high debts. GV was believed to have sponsored most of Mani’s endeavours.

Saturn transited in the month of November 2006, which should surely bring Mani some good news on his career front. The period between November 2006 and January 2007 will be ideal for him to release the movie. And I heard from my sister, that she saw a poster at Satyam Cinema, announcing the release of the movie in the month of December 2006, which astrologically is an awesome period for Mani Ratnam.

I also checked my Tarot Cards to answer the client query about the movie. And the cards that flashed were the Sun, and 9 of Pentacles - based on which it can be astrologically said that that the movie will do really well at the box office, will make high collections, and also will receive international acclaim!

Abhishek Bacchan is already running an awesome time, so his luck should favour the movie too.

Pray God for the movie and also for my predictions and me!

Source - http://www.askenni.com/archives/2006...o_go.html#more

[Indinehon]

Interesting thought there.

Not that I'm an Astrologist believer or anything like that.

Still, I'm anticipating this movie and I'm too impatient for the Guru music to release God Dammit!

[engideNedmupe]

ACCURATE TRACK LIST. GURU CD IS NOW OUT WORLDWIDE. SOURCE: Nehaflix.com

Track list:

1. Barso Re Shreya Ghoshal, Keerthi

2. Tere Bina A.R. Rahman, Chinmayee,

3. Ek Lo Ek Muft Bappi Lahiri, Chitra

4. Mayya Maryem Toller, Chinmayee, Keerthi

5. Ey Hairathe Hariharan, Alka Yagnik

6. Baazi Laga Udit Narayan, Madhushree, Swetha, Bhargavee

7. Jaage Hain Chitra, A.R. Rahman, Madras Chorale Group

CD includes 4 bonus tracks from RDB, Meenaxi, Kisna, Lagaan.

Should expect mp3 downloads by coming weekend...

[EnvellFen]

BREAKING NEWS

Guru's release date is pushed back to January 12 2007. Meaning that it's a few more weeks till then...

[Petrushkaukrop]

As a suprise to you all, I have the GURU mp3s. Currently uploading on Megaupload, if you all can sit tight for a few minutes, I'll have it up by then.

It's the least we can do till the film releases. Or song promos release that is.

[prpaims]

One quick change, do you all mind if I convert them to wma? They're all 320 though. It's just so the upload speed will be FASTER.

[bubbachew14]

Nick,

Please post the MP3's in the ARR section's "Mani Rathnam's Guru" thread. It'll be more helpful to hubbers as a lot more Music Fans visit that thread than here.

[FjFHQLJQ]

Gotcha.

Forgot to add this to postonement of release date: Mani hasn't finished the post-production for the film so that's the reason.

Ironically, Priyan also pushed back Bhagam Bhag for some odd reason. So in the end, no xmas b'wood release.

[Heacechig]

Hey friends this movie should be superhit...

Guru Official Website

http://www.guru-themovie.com

[check Gurutalk]


http://www.guru-thefilm.com


Looks like another Classic from Maniratnam

Best Wishes to Maniratnam,ARR,Abhishek

and there is other good star cast including Mithun Chakraborthy,Maddy & Aish

[Adfcvkdg]

Guru ........... now becoming the EXPECTED !



Is this a true story tat inspired Mani Rathnam ????

[Haremporblape]

Supposedly the story of Ambani.

[maks_holi]

I believe thats correct !
i too thought so !

[unapelosina]

Oh appadiyaa ... ok ok ! adhu seri ... then i believe this should be interesting ! but oppose pannuvaangalo ? is the fight between the brothers being shown in this ?

[Teeppoodiug]

i don't no tat

hope its' der

[vSzsgifP]

'Guru' world premiere to be held in Toronto
By Indo Asian News Service

Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS) Writer-director Mani Ratnam's much-anticipated 'Guru', starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, will have its world premiere in Toronto on Jan 11.

The film will be screened at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre, where most Hollywood films are premiered, with the cast and crew in attendance.

Roger Nair Productions has acquired the Canadian rights of 'Guru' from Bobby Bedi's Kaleidoscope Entertainment. It is touted as a path breaking deal between Canada and India, in the process making Canada an official territory for Bollywood films.

The company has entered the distribution market in a big way for Canada territory and will be buying Bollywood films for North America and Europe as well.

It is also in negotiations with some other top Indian filmmakers for acquiring the rights of their films. The company, which is acquiring absolute theatrical, video and TV rights, will also ensure legal right to curb piracy with the help of local police and the justice system.

It's a win-win situation for everyone involved taking Bollywood to global arena.

http://in.movies.yahoo.com/061221/43/6ah9h.html


.... ... :P ... .........
now i just need someone to hook me up with the organizers... ...

[giDdfezP]

Maddy plays Gurumurthy?
By Moviebuzz | Thursday, 04 January , 2007, 16:41
Is Maddy playing the role of the controversial investigative journalist S.Gurumurthy in Mani Ratnam’s Guru? Everybody knows that Mani is making a movie on the life and times of Dhirubhai Ambani the legendary business tycoon who made Reliance Industry, a household name.

The media baron, late Ramnath Goenka and his ‘Indian Express’ had done a series of exposes on Ambani and the growth of Reliance through political patronage. At that time, S.Gurumurthy had done most of the writing, exposing the Ambanis.

In Mani’s Guru, Abhishek Bachchan plays Gurukanth Desai (Dhirubhai Ambani), Mithun Chakravarthy plays Manikdas Gupta (Ramnath Goenka) and Madhavan plays Shyam Saxena (S.Gurumurthy) the crusader who works for ‘The Independent’!

In fact, Mani Ratnam had shot Mithun and Maddy’s scenes at the `Indian Express` office in Chennai to give it an authentic look.



The views expressed in the article are the author's and not of Sify.com.

[cajonnmu]

Caught this movie yesterday. Definitely one of Mani's better efforts in recent times. Abhishek's performance is great and Mitunda stands out as ManikdasGupta. Movie is very interesting but he could have cut the songs out. They stood out like a sore thumb esp in the second half. All in all a good movie to watch.

[Faungarne]

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/jan/14ash.htm

Abhishek, Aishwarya get engaged

Syed Firdaus Ashraf in Mumbai | January 14, 2007 23:44 IST
Last Updated: January 15, 2007 00:38 IST

After days of media speculation, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai finally got engaged in Mumbai on Sunday.

The engagement ceremony took place at the Bachchans' residence soon after the couple landed from the premiere of their latest film Guru in Toronto and New York.

The event was attended by family members of the Bachchan and the Rais. Bachchans' close family friend Amar Singh also attended the ceremony.

It is believed that Abhishek proposed Aishwarya after the premiere of Guru in New York. The actress accepted the proposal on the spot.

Speaking to rediff.com, Aishwarya's media manager Harii Singh confirmed the couple's engagement. "The news is confirmed. Abhishek and Aishwarya have got engaged," Singh said.

However, he refused to give any further details. "At this moment, I can only say that the news of engagement is true," he said.

The marriage date has not been confirmed but it is believed that only very close relatives will be called for the most-awaited Bollywood marriage of 2007.

Earlier, it had been reported that the marriage will take place on February 19, 2007. But that has not been confirmed as yet.

As the news of the engagement became public, the who's who of Bollywood started pouring in at Amitabh Bachchan's residence 'Jalsa' in Mumbai to congratulate the couple.

Karan Johar and Kirron Kher were the first to reach Bachchan's home followed by industrialist Anil Ambani and his wife Tina.

Abhishek and Aishwarya, also known as Abhiwarya, first acted together in the movie Kuch Na Kaho in 2003, where they developed close friendship. Little is known on when the friendship developed in love but the first signs surfaced after Aishwarya split with her last boyfriend Viviek Oberoi in November 2005.

One of the main reason for the split was Aishwarya never publicly acknowledged that she was dating Viviek Oberoi whereas he was talking about his affair all over the town.

Abhishek was earlier engaged to Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor. However, the engagement broke off and Karisma married Delhi-based industrialist Sanjay Kapoor in September 2003.

It was in February 2006, when Amitabh Bachchan's brother Ajitabh Bachchan admitted to media that he had gone to Bangalore-based astrologer Chandrashekhar Swamy with the horoscopes of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan.

The astrologer had admitted that he had checked the horoscopes of the duo and predicted that if 'God willed,' the wedding will happen.

Over the days, the news of Abhiwarya's wedding died down, but the couple was regularly spotted at various events. Neither Aishwarya nor Abhishek ever admitted that they were seeing each other. At the same time, the films that Aishwarya preferred had Abhishek in the lead roles. Umrao Jaan, Dhoom 2 (where she was paired opposite Hrithik) or Guru -- all had Abhishek's presence.

"When I will get married, you all will know," she had told rediff.com in November 2006 at the release time of her film Umrao Jaan. Though the film bombed at the box office, Aishwarya and Abhishek were soon spotted at the Varanasi Sankat Mochan temple on November 27, 2006.

After that incident, the Rais and Bachchans were seen making endless visits to all the holy temples across the country for God's blessings. It seems now that God has finally blessed the couple.

[KeettyGlots]

Friends,
Guru: Mani Ratnam disappoints

[KernJetenue]

Friends,
Guru: Mani Ratnam disappoints

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