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The Guru | |
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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 |
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Running time | 112 min |
Countries | United States India |
Languages | English Urdu |
Budget | $970,000 [1] |
The Guru is a 1969 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 ( Utpal Dutt) is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.
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]
1965 (...) MPAA U.S. + Canadian rentals % of BO (...) 29.8
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (June 2012) |
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 |
|
Running time | 112 min |
Countries | United States India |
Languages | English Urdu |
Budget | $970,000 [1] |
The Guru is a 1969 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 ( Utpal Dutt) is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.
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]
1965 (...) MPAA U.S. + Canadian rentals % of BO (...) 29.8