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    Movies 1969 Movies G 2 Mins Read

    Guru, The (1969)

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    Michael York stars as disaffected British rock star Tom Pickle (a thinly disguised George Harrison perchance) who travels to India looking to learn the sitar.

    Rita Tushingham delivers a sublime performance as Jenny, the Mia Farrow-like hippie waif who is in India seeking spiritual enlightenment and who falls for Pickle in between his sitar sessions.

    Ustal Zafar Khan (Utpal Dutt) is the Bengal master musician and religious teacher who casts his spell over both of them. The Guru has two wives – Begum Sahiba (Madhur Jaffrey) who is the mother of his four daughters, and Ghazala (Aparna Sen), his pretty, young and modern-minded wife. Each is jealous of the other.

    Barry Foster plays Pickle’s brash mod manager, Chris, who arrives halfway through the film to try and lure his star back to engagements in Europe.

    It’s an intelligent satire on the mid-60s trend of dissatisfied western pop stars jetting in to the Indian sub-continent for a quick dose of spiritual enlightenment – coupled with tuition on an exotic Asian stringed instrument.

    Tom Pickle
    Michael York
    Jenny
    Rita Tushingham
    Ustal Zafar Khan
    Utpal Dutt
    Begum Sahiba
    Madhur Jaffrey
    Chris
    Barry Foster
    Ghazala
    Aparna Sen
    Mastani 
    Zohra Sehgal
    Murad
    Saeed Jaffrey
    The Guru’s Guru
    Nana Palsikar
    Courtesan
    Nadira
    Girl at the Party
    Leela Naidu
    Lady Reporter
    Usha Katrah
    Howard
    Fred Ohringer

    Director
    James Ivory

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