The Guru (1969 film)

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The Guru
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)
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) 1969
Running time 112 min
Language English, Urdu
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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.

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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Films by Merchant Ivory Productions

The Householder • Shakespeare Wallah • The Guru • Bombay Talkie • Savages • The Wild Party • Autobiography of a Princess • Roseland • Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures • The Five Forty-Eight • The Europeans • Jane Austen in Manhattan • Quartet • Courtesans of Bombay • Heat and Dust • The Bostonians • A Room with a View • Maurice • The Deceivers • Slaves of New York • Mr. & Mrs. Bridge • The Perfect Murder • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe • Street Musicians of Bombay • Howards End • The Remains of the Day • In Custody • Feast of July • Jefferson in Paris • The Proprietor • Surviving Picasso • Side Streets • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries • Cotton Mary • The Golden Bowl • The Mystic Masseur • Le Divorce • Heights • The White Countess • The City of Your Final Destination
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