The Guru (1969 film)

The Guru (1969 film)

Infobox Film | name = The Guru


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director = James Ivory
producer = Ismail Merchant
writer = Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
James Ivory
starring = Rita Tushingham
Michael York
Utpal Dutt
Madhur Jaffrey
Barry Foster (actor)
Aparna Sen
Zohra Sehgal
Dina Pathak
Saeed Jaffrey
music = Ustad Vilayat Khan
cinematography = Subrata Mitra
editing = Prabhakar Supare
Humphrey Dixon (assistant)
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = 1969
runtime = 112 min
language = English, Urdu
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0064396

:"For other uses of the word "Guru," see Guru (disambiguation)."

"The Guru" (1969) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.

Plot synopsis

A rock star, Tom Pickle (Michael York), travels to India to learn to play the sitar with the great musician Ustad Zafar Khan (as George Harrison did when he studied under Ravi Shankar). Khan is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.

External links

* [http://www.merchantivory.com/guru.html Merchant Ivory overview]


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