‘Guru’ gyan

Here’s a preview of Mani Ratnam’s tale of ‘a villager, a visionary and a winner’

Director: Mani Ratnam
Producer: Ratnam and G. Srinivasan
Script: Mani and Suhasini Ratnam and Vijay Krishna Acharya
Shot at: Turkey, Badami in Karnataka, Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
Music: AR Rahman
Lyrics: Gulzar

Cast:
Abhishek Bachchan (Gurukant Desai)
Aishwarya Rai (Sujatha)
Madhavan (Shyam Saxena)
Vidya Balan (Meenu)
Mithun Chakraborty (Manikdas Gupta)
Mallika Sherawat (guest appearance)

Story: Apparently, the film is based on the life of India’s renowned industrialist, the late Dhirubhai Ambani, and inspired from the Hollywood flick ‘The Aviator’. It’s a tale of a man who comes from a village to Mumbai with a dream to conquer the world.

Abhishek plays protagonist Gurukant and Ash plays his wife Sujatha. For their roles Ash was required to put on four kilos and Abhishek had to grow from slim to overweight.