An Evening With Guru

I have been hearing lot of nice words about Guru. Whenever I go for any Mani Ratnam film, what I expect is his freshness in the direction of the movie. I do not want to sound as a bitchy critic and I am not an expert in reviewing movies, but just wanted to put down my two cents worth. Guru can certainly be a turning point in Abhishek's career, kudos to Mani for squeezing out every drop of acting talent in him. I loved the wittiness and positive outlook of the character. Other than that, I don't think the film has anything better to offer except Rahman's songs. Talking about the songs, the choreography of some of them gave an "already seen" feeling. Mallika Sherawat's "Maiyya Maiyya" evoked

memories of "Humma Humma" of Bombay. "Barso Re" gave a feel of "Konjum Mainakkale" of Kandukondain Kandukondain, probably because both showed similar scenery and had the same actress. The Athirapally waterfalls looked really majestic. "Tere Bina" made me remember "Snehithane" of Alaypuyuthey. For me, the best directed film of Mani Ratnam till now would be Alaypayuthey. The way that movie went forward was absolutely astounding. I am glad to see Vidya Balan, though her part was an insignificant one. But I guess, Mani would give her a leading role in his future film, just like he had experimented with Abhishek in Yuva. And now, Guru happened for Abhishek. I am in a way frustrated to know that an amazing soulful music is purposefully not recorded in the audio CDs of Guru. In the movie, that song is whispered during the incineration of Meenu. It is sung by Soumya Rao and I hoped to see it in the track listing. However, Mani and Rahman decided to make that song and another one as an integral part of the movie, but not to put them in the CD. *How cruel!* I was quite impressed by the on-screen chemistry between Abhishek and Aishwarya. When Guru's and Sujatha's wedding was shown, I was thinking very soon they could be doing this in real life. *How did they manage to put a paunch on Abhishek, it looked so real!* Turning on my gay-vision, Sujatha's brother, Jignesh played by Arya Babbar is one hell of a hard-on factor!

Yesterday, I got the mail from the thomp thomp guy. He was slightly having an amnesia about the conversation that happened in the office. He wrote to me back saying, he now remember the incident and it was not the conversation that he remembered, but my face. According to him, I have a good face value! *blushes* He then told me he actually wanted to initiate the chat, but then I did beat him in that. *lol!* We are planning for a meet, but don't know when that happens. Anyways, he is pretty soon leaving the place. So there is nothing much to expect.