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{{Short description|1969 film by James Ivory}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{more citations needed|date=June 2012}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Guru
| image = The Guru.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[James Ivory]]
| producer = [[Ismail Merchant]]
| writer = [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] [[James Ivory]]
| starring = [[Rita Tushingham]] [[Michael York]] [[Utpal Dutt]] [[Madhur Jaffrey]] [[Barry Foster (actor)|Barry Foster]] [[Aparna Sen]] [[Zohra Sehgal]] [[Saeed Jaffrey]]
| music = [[Vilayat Khan|Ustad Vilayat Khan]]
| cinematography = [[Subrata Mitra]]
| editing = Prabhakar Supare [[Humphrey Dixon]] (assistant)
| studio = [[Merchant Ivory Productions]]
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released = 10 February 1969
| runtime = 112 min
| country = United States India
| language = English [[Urdu]]
| budget = $970,000<ref>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</ref>
| gross = $2 million ({{estimation}})
}}

'''''The Guru''''' is a [[Bollywood films of 1969|1969]] film by [[Merchant Ivory Productions]], with a screenplay by [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] and [[James Ivory]].

==Plot==
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==
*[[Rita Tushingham]] - Jenny
*[[Michael York]] - Tom Pickle
*[[Utpal Dutt]] - Ustal Zafar Khan
*[[Madhur Jaffrey]] - Begum Sahiba
*[[Barry Foster (actor)|Barry Foster]] - Chris
*[[Aparna Sen]] - Ghazala
*[[Zohra Sehgal]] - Mastani
*[[Saeed Jaffrey]] - Murad

==Box office==
According to Fox records, the film required $1,675,000 in [[theatrical rental]]s to break even. By 11 December 1970, it had only made $625,000 in rentals, causing the studio to take a loss.<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/328 328]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart}}</ref> This was equivalent to estimated [[box office]] gross receipts of approximately {{US$|{{#expr:0.625*(100/29.8) round 0}} million|long=no}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vogel |first1=Harold L. |chapter=Table 3.4. Motion picture theater industry statistics, 1965-2009 |title=Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis |date=2010 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-139-49732-9 |pages=88–9 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfyFFCyRvX0C&pg=PA88 |quote=1965 (...) MPAA U.S. + Canadian rentals % of BO (...) 29.8}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0064396|title=The Guru}}
*[http://www.merchantivory.com/guru.html Merchant Ivory overview]

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[[Category:Indian-American films]]
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[[Category:English-language Indian films]]
[[Category:Merchant Ivory Productions films]]
[[Category:Films directed by James Ivory]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]
[[Category:Films scored by Vilayat Khan]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by James Ivory]]

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