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The Guru

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Original title

The Guru

Year

1969

Running time

112 min.

Country

United States

Director

James Ivory

Screenwriter

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory

Cast

Music

Ustad Vilayat Khan

Cinematography

Subrata Mitra

Producer

Co-production United States-India;

Merchant Ivory Production, Arcadia Films

Genre

Comedy | Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar (musical instrument) from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan. Tom is taken to Zafar's home, where he gets to meet his wife and several daughters, and the maestro himself. Zafar never has had a disciple as Tom, and is clearly disappointed with his lack of respect. Nevertheless, he asks him to travel to Banares with him. Also accompanying them is a young Caucasian woman named Jenny, who Zafar has taken a liking to, much to his wife's displeasure, and who is more respectful of him than Tom. In Banaras, they get to meet Zafar's aging Guru, and his mistress, Ghazala, who is expecting a child soon. Zafar hopes that it will be a son. Zafar's Guru is quite disappointed with him for having Tom and Jenny as his disciples. An over-awed and overwrought Jenny decides to take it easy - and it is then she witnesses the murder of a courtesan...

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The Guru

1969

James Ivory