The Guru (2005)IMDB LinkIt is always a joy to watch a movie that mocks things it enjoys, because you know there is never any spite in it. It’s like how people sometimes make fun of their good friends (or jokingly rape them). Guru constantly laughs at the romantic comedy, western fixtures on eastern spirituality, Bollywood movies, but it does it while finding pleasure it need. It never tries to pretend its better than them, but it merely points out that it knows its silly, but it still enjoys them.
Anyway, an Indian dance comes to America to become famous. He is distressed when he finds out that the life waiting for him is the life of a waiter. When he complains to his friend, he gets the response, “Do you know why they call it the American Dream? Because it only happens when you sleep.” Still off he goes trying to be popular and shit.
The movie stays fun and light throughout. It didn’t exactly make me rush to the phone and call my friends, going, “Guys (and hot girls, of course), you have to watch this fucking AWESOME movie!”, but it did keep me from looking at my watch (I don’t really have a watch, so I basically mean the bottom-right corner of my monitor). Its interesting to note that suddenly having a bunch of people do a Bollywood song and dance routine is great fun to watch, only a shame that it works better in a non-Bollywood movie, because it isn’t repeated 30 times in the span of a 6 hours movie.
So, yeah, good fun. I specially liked how they make fun of white people falling for eastern spiritual bullshit. Fucking white people!
3/5
