The Guru (1969 film)

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The Guru

Film poster
Directed by James Ivory
Produced by Ismail Merchant
Written by 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 by Ustad Vilayat Khan
Cinematography Subrata Mitra
Editing by Prabhakar Supare
Humphrey Dixon (assistant)
Studio Merchant Ivory Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) 1969
Running time 112 min
Language English, Urdu
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.

[edit] 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.

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