想搬家已有一段時日, 何處 "不限制link來源" (yahoo設限了), 網站穩定之部落格園地.Yahoo未免小家子氣太過.介紹連結他處也算禁忌?Wretch不設限,樂多也不設限...可是版面沒有YAHOO乾淨.
以上與部落格主旨無關,說一些符合綱目的事情.
Guru改編古加拉特邦 (位在拉加斯坦邦以南)的大亨Dhirajlal Hirachand一生為經緯,主人翁化名Guru Desai,影片昨日上映開出紅盤.大導一出手便知有沒有,雖然Mani Ratnam是Hindi Box Office的長敗將軍,但屢敗屢戰,影片言之有物, Guru有雙生雙旦壓陣,一豔星客串歌舞.票房與評論雙贏~ Finally Abhiwarya breaks jinx.
以下是印度媒體的報導 : http://in.movies.yahoo.com/070113/128/6b3qq.html 這一篇報導說著化妝技巧需改進.說得也是,Aish和AB jr的老妝都太年輕了.
By Martin D'Souza, Bollywood Trade News Network
Before I can even go any further, get your advance booking done. Gurukant Desai (Abhishek Bachchan) is set to rock you with his controlled performance that makes you want to hug the gujjubhai, who puts his foot in every door and bribes his way through others that refused to open, to race his way to the top.
Guru, a period flick, is the story of a simple but ambitious villager, Gurukant Desai. He dreams big and to fulfill his dreams arrives in Bombay (1958). He is married to Sujata (Aishwarya Rai). He also has something else; two shirts and Rs.15,000 to start his business, along with the Rs 25,000 he got as dowry! But soon he realizes that the business world is ruled by a handful of rich and influential people and for him to make his foray here, he has to "force" his way.
So it's both black and white sides to him now. His fair side wins him admirers, at the same time as his grey side earns him a few detractors. Nanaji (Mithun) who runs a newspaper Swatantra and Shyam Saxena (Madhavan, the honest reporter) are two of them who stand up to fight Guru's unjust ways.
The movie begins with an older Abhishek, whose makeover is a little comical. At times it reminds me of SRK's older avatar in Veer Zara. Why can't our makeover match that of our Hollywood counterparts? Look at Russell Crowe aging in A Beautiful Mind. It's simply amazing. If we can get in foreign stunt directors and fight masters, Mani Ratnam could have done well to rope in a Hollywood 'magician' to do the trick for AB Jr. Apart from this, the movie rolls on without a glitch.
A very young Guru, just out of school, goes to Turkey in search of work and in seven years there, he makes an impact with the English bosses who promote him with a hefty hike in salary. He spurns the offer and returns to his village to do bijness instead of working for the goras. "Sab kuch pehle se hi likha hai," he tells his friend who berates him for thinking big. His father too, is not kicked, but Guru is adamant and makes his way to Bombay. There are obvious references to the late Dhirubhai Ambani.
The way the story unravels keeps the audience to their seat. Guru simply refuses to hear a "no' and supposedly has an answer to every problem which sees his meteoric rise, until Mithunda (Nanaji) decides to expose him.
In the end, it's Guru's gujju brain that wins him the day and the inquiry commission instituted to delve into his supposed many frauds can prove just two. It's the junta that stands behind him who he has helped make big bucks.
Aishwarya Rai emotes well as the wife who stands by her husband through thick and thin. The chemistry between the off-screen couple sets alight the screen. Mithunda impresses with his mature performance playing his age, but one wonders what Vidya Balan is doing sitting in a wheelchair. Clearly, the actress is far more talented. However, Mani Ratnam has done a fab job with the storyline. The acclaimed director has caught the audience pulse with Guru, which is no run-of-the-mill Bollywood flick. The lip-lock between Madhavan and Vidya Balan is beautifully shot making one stand up and applaud. Indian cinema is evolving!
One sees shades of the Amitabh of Pukar in the young Abhishek with a mustache, and flashes of his father's Agneepath performance in the cold confrontation with Mithun. Aby's baby has grown and how! He's now moved into the league of actors instead of just being a 'star son'. He has done his homework well and stands tall as he directs his dialogue with the ease of a seasoned pro. He has worked well on his body language as a gujjubhai and has gone four steps further by showing a "four month" pregnant belly!
We have seen the Shahenshah. We have also seen the Baadshah. Ab agaya sab ka GURU!
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/jan/12guru.htm
January 12, 2007 18:12 IST Except, because this is Bollywood, we've seen it all before. Rags to riches tales abound in the unreal song-and-dance world our stars jiggle around in, and we have seen protagonists come from nowhere to become superheroes, just like we've seen them fight 81 gangsters armed with their mother's blessings. Dare to dream, it announces proudly, but isn't that the moral of pretty much every masala Bollywood pikchur? Then again, Guru is a Mani Ratnam film. Which automatically ensures restraint and realism in the film and an almost hushed reverence in the audience. The film stops a few inches short of being a biopic, but the director bestows his character, Guru Kant Desai, with enough depth to make him feel as flesh-and-blood as you or me. Sure, there are enough superficial similarities with real life business icons, but the film (sadly?) isn't about men who share a corporate logo uncannily similar to the hero, it's about Guru. Period. And he's quite the character. Abhishek Bachchan plays the young Gujarati boy with stars in his eyes and an excessive urge to warm his pockets. After landing himself a job in Turkey (and cavorting with the supremely sexy Mallika Sherawat) he works his way up the corporate chain, before he decides he's got to go into business for himself. 'Bijness,' Guru'd say. Deciding to marry his closest friend's sister because of the dowry he can packet as his starting capital, our leading man strikes gold as he finds himself a dutiful, undeniably pretty wife in the bargain, played by Aishwarya Rai.
Guru is the stuff of dreams, the fluff of escapism. It is cinema where protagonists succeed defying all odds and where young gophers in Shell tracksuits go on to address stadium-fulls of adoring shareholders. And, it comes complete with songs, thrown in with abrupt abandon.
Then comes his rise, with lots of happenstance. Strangely, Mani chooses not to dwell too much on his climb itself, preferring to show us bits of success interspersed with A R Rahman's spectacular music -- which, in this case, almost always overwhelms the film around it. So while we have young Guru seeing through a game of cups-and-balls at a Turkish fair and Guru ingeniously winning himself a crucial trading membership on the golf course, the incidents come at a slow clip, minus revelations or insight, with most of the action lying in Guru's crisply-written dialogue, the hero speaking almost exclusively in punchlines.
And a rise so meteoric does indeed owe a tremendous debt to Miss Fortune. But the ambitious achievers, the ones out there trying to change the world around them while you're reading this review, aren't just lucky lads/lasses. They're the ones leaving absolutely no stone unturned, denying refusal and perpetually keeping eyes peeled for opportunity to exploit. So when a furious, sun burnt Guru glares at a big building at Mumbai's picturesque Marine Drive and happens to randomly run into the genial publisher of The Independent (Mithun Chakraborty) who happens to like people with a temper, the meeting is chance. The relationship that follows, is all Guru's doing.
Guru is fuelled by a slew of strong performances. Abhishek Bachchan owns the movie, forcing audiences to sit up straight as it begins and making us laugh and applaud as he carries on.
Bachchan forces himself under the skin of the character, and from gait to accent, proves constantly credible. He's impressive in every frame, as he ebulliently takes over an alien room by hopping onto a chair, or when he's trying to be ever so slightly slimy, polishing his spectacles and showing off his smarminess. He thrusts his chest out in jubilation, manages a paunch to rival his pregnant wife's, and can really, really hold his own (while channeling some of his dad's glorious anger) during a soliloquy.
And then there's his lady. Aishwarya Rai starts off cold, breaking into song a few minutes after Ms Sherawat has wowed the crowds, and despite her newfound penchant for very low-cut cholis, she doesn't quite get you going. Until she reaches a railway station, as abandoned as in Dil Se, reads a Dear Jane letter from a spineless lover, and grits her teeth. This one's a fiery character, solid of resolve and while she melts irresistibly for her husband, is not likely to take nonsense from anyone else.
Ash is disarmingly natural in the film, holding her own even in scenes where she's crippled by a lack of dialogue. There is a spontaneous freedom to her, and this is arguably her finest performance, visible especially when she takes over the film's climax.
Mithunda may be a revelation to Bollywood audiences unfamiliar with his art-house work, but Mani uses him very well in a role that justifies his top billing in the movie's credits. His character is strong but with weaknesses, great but almost tempted to give up the nobility. Mithun portrays this inner conflict with terrific moderation, and is largely responsible for the film reaching a crescendo in the first half.
As for the others, outside of a fine supporting cast culled from television, the lovely Vidya Balan is okay but somewhat wasted in a role that isn't as well-etched, and Madhavan proves, yet again, that he can mouth good-boy lines with extreme, believable sincerity. This one is truly a poster boy for India.
Sadly, the film hinges on greatness, but decides to play it safe.
Even as it builds up, with fabulous, infectious enthusiasm right up to the interval, it promises far more than the second half delivers. The film is about a gray character, about Guru Kant Desai (That's Gurubhai to you) who made questionable decisions, delved into illegality and made offers people couldn't refuse -- a man who never looked back in his overreaching urge to make more money. A character high on ambition, low on scruples and one who considers himself a messiah, albeit purely capitalistic.
Yet while there is much ground to explore this conflict (and the film lays down the ammo in the first half), most of it is oversimplified. While the film does call Guru 'a smuggler' and 'a swindler,' it does so in hushed tones. The newspapermen are painted with near villainous colours, seeming to persecute the almost-blameless hero. Mani looks so besotted with his hero that the film virtually calls his crimes insignificant and inevitable. There is a point near the end when Guru vociferously likens himself and his fight for more to Gandhi's freedom struggle, and our jaws drop till he instantly retracts the scandalous line.
This is irresponsible filmmaking coming from a director of such stature. It's disappointing seeing a non-biopic turn into such hagiography, and while it works completely -- save for a slightly winded second half -- as a masala film, it really had the potential to be Fantastic. It isn't.
恭喜大家耐心閱讀,以下是某位業餘愛好者的觀影心得. 轉自http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499375/
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A perfect example of gripping storytelling and impeccable characterisation, 12 January 2007
Author: Jeewan Daniel from United Kingdom
Just returned from the theatres, now that I am home I feel genuinely very happy that Guru Kanth Desai is still going strong. I am also completely confident he will make Shakthi Corporation the biggest company in the world...by now you must be wondering what I am talking about, this is how many viewers would feel after coming out of watching Maniratnam's Guru.
First of all let me start by mentioning Abhishek Bachan's role, as this is the role that Guru is built upon. If there ever was a movie where one actor dominated so completely I would only compare Kamal Hassan in Nayakudu/Nayakan. Abhishek should be very proud of what he has accomplished in Guru, it is something that some actors haven't or will not achieve in a life time. He is impeccable for the hardest of critic to comment. His histrionics are brilliant and the way he lost and gained weight during different parts of the movie demonstrate how serious Maniratnam and Abhishek were in making this movie. Keep the awards ready please...Abhishek Bachan has his name stamped on them.
The story is quite simple; it is the narration and the characterisation that makes this movie so unique and interesting. it's about a common mans journey to build India's largest company with the help of its share holders by whatever means possible. In Guru, Guru Kanth Desai is not portrayed as an invincible man rather he is played as a very good business man who can talk and do right things at the right time. The narration of the story is so tight you never flinch. (This applies only to serious movie watchers, not the ones who cannot do without masala and comedy in a film) Maniratnam is one the best story tellers in our country if not the best, and he does that perfectly again. This will rate as one of the best works of Maniratnam; I would take the liberty of putting this Under Nayakudu/Nayakan which rates first on my list of Maniratnam movies.
The music is by A R Rahman, we all know what happens when Maniratnam and A R Rahman team up. Pure magic is created. More than the songs of Guru, the background score impressed me. It is the music in every important scene that brings the scene to life. Rahman is amazing and like Rang De Basanti the songs just blend into the movie. Not to mention Mayya Mayya and Barso re Megha in the first 20 minutes of the movie brighten up the whole theatre.
A word of mention...
Aishwarya Rai has a very strong role in Guru; strong roles are very scarce in Bollywood these days...especially for female artists. Aishwarya stays with Guru throughout the movie and stays on the top of Bollywood by doing that brilliantly.
Mithun & Madhavan are the adamant characters that fight for the right, when I say adamant they really are in the movie and you feel their willingness to stay on the right side of things all through the movie. All the other supporting roles including Vidhya Balan are brilliantly enacted. There is no character that was underplayed or wasn't justified.
Where does this leave us...? Maniratnam has made a wonderful movie full of strong characters, great screen play, brilliant music and marvellous photography by Rajiv Menon. He needs to be commended for this effort. It is no wonder he takes two years to make out one movie, Guru was worth waiting for...so here I am already waiting for his next
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