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The Guru (1969 film) 
Summary
The Guru is a 1969 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.
| The Guru | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala James Ivory |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Starring | Rita Tushingham Michael York Utpal Dutt Madhur Jaffrey Barry Foster Aparna Sen Zohra Sehgal Saeed Jaffrey |
| Cinematography | Subrata Mitra |
| Edited by | Prabhakar Supare Humphrey Dixon (assistant) |
| Music by | Ustad Vilayat Khan |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | 10 February 1969 |
Running time | 112 min |
| Countries | United States India |
| Languages | English Urdu |
| Budget | $970,000[1] |
Plot edit
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 (Utpal Dutt) is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.
Cast edit
- Rita Tushingham as Jenny
- Michael York as Tom Pickle
- Utpal Dutt as Ustad Zafar Khan
- Madhur Jaffrey as Begum Sahiba
- Barry Foster as Chris
- Aparna Sen as Ghazala
- Zohra Sehgal as Mastani
- Saeed Jaffrey as Murad
Box office edit
According to Fox records, the film required $1,675,000 in theatrical rentals to break even. By December 1970, it had only made $625,000 in rentals, causing the studio to take a loss.[2] This was equivalent to estimated box office gross receipts of approximately $2 million.[3]
References edit
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1, p. 256
- ^ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 328. ISBN 9780818404856.
- ^ Vogel, Harold L. (2010). "Table 3.4. Motion picture theater industry statistics, 1965-2009". Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis. Cambridge University Press. pp. 88–9. ISBN 978-1-139-49732-9.
1965 (...) MPAA U.S. + Canadian rentals % of BO (...) 29.8
External links edit
- The Guru at IMDb
- Merchant Ivory overview
