GURU - Mani Ratnams movie is based on Dhirubhai Ambani's life !
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Movie is released by Anil Ambani through ADLABS.
Ambani wants to know more about 'Guru'
Kunal M Shah
Mukesh Ambani is keen to find out how his father Dhirubhai Ambani has been portrayed in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Guru’.
No doubt the audiences are keen to see Mani Ratnam’s ‘Guru’. But apparently, the keenest of them all is Mukesh Ambani elder son of the late Dhirubhai Ambani on whom Ratnam’s film is based. According to our sources, Mukesh is really keen to know exactly how Dhirubhai’s character has been portrayed. Though feelers have been sent to Mani Ratnam for a private screening for the Ambanis, the auteur is determined to keep his film under wraps till it is released on December 29. “Mukesh loves films and usually sees most films before they release. But no, he hasn’t seen ‘Guru’ yet,” says a source close to Mukesh and Nita Ambani.
Mukesh Ambani has always been a little protective of what’s written or shown about his father. For instance, Hamish McDonald’s unauthorised biography ‘The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani’ not an entirely flattering account of the tycoon’s life, was never released in India because the Ambanis threatened legal action against what they perceived to be defamatory bits in the book. In the case of ‘Guru’, says the source, “Mukesh needn’t worry. There is Abhishek in the film and the Bachchans’ closeness with the Ambanis is well known and it is unlikely that there are any negative shades to the protagonist.”
In the film, Abhishek Bachchan plays Dhirubhai and Aishwarya Rai plays Kokilaben. Madhavan plays Abhishek’s righthand man and Vidya Balan, his love interest. Arya Babbar plays Ash’s brother (based on Rasik Meswani, perhaps) who is almost like a son to Abhishek. In the film though, in a deviation from real life, Arya Babbar’s character is shown to betray Abhishek. The other deviation from fact is that Abhishek and Aishwarya have two sons but they are twins.
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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....
"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"
Bloggers are definitely in agreement....
http://www.garamchai.com/index.php?p=110
"During the movie it is easy to forget the attempt Mani Ratnam makes to mask the difference between the life of “Gurubhai” and a similarly sounding “Dhirubhai"
Had been coming for a long time....
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/jan/14ash.htm
Congrats to the newly engaged...
though not sure about the pair...IMHO looks like a mismatch..but then, 'Jab Miya Bibi Raji to kya kareja...
.."
Hiren
Location: carl sagan's universe
Posted on: 14-01-07 23:18:10
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Originally posted by hchheda
Had been coming for a long time....
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/jan/14ash.htm
Congrats to the newly engaged...
though not sure about the pair...IMHO looks like a mismatch..but then, 'Jab Miya Bibi Raji to kya kareja...
Hiren
They still are not 'miya and begum'.
Quote:
Originally posted by investpro
Quote:
Originally posted by hchheda
Had been coming for a long time....
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/jan/14ash.htm
Congrats to the newly engaged...
though not sure about the pair...IMHO looks like a mismatch..but then, 'Jab Miya Bibi Raji to kya kareja...
Hiren
They still are not 'miya and begum'.
It is a proverb and meant to apply to any 2 'agreeing' parties...
.not necessarily Husband n wife...also, "kaji's" opinion matters only 'before' the marraige not after..so even then they are not 'miya and begum'..
Hiren
This morning in the CBC news this news was covered and ASH/Abhishek were declared as the hottest couple in the world. Move over Brangelina !.
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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....
"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"
I was looking at yahoo home page, and in the popular search two Bachchan's were in top ten!!
List:
Ashley Harder
Barzan Ibrahim
Miss USA
Amitabh Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan
Bob Greene
Meryl Streep
Hugh Laurie
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