Guru

Mani Ratnam again makes a political statement at the right time. From Roja through Yuva, Mani Ratnam's movies have echoed the pulse of the population - and this time he presents a case for capitalist India. Guru represents the young, hard-working Indian working against an archaic system which attempts to stifle him. Are the means he chooses right? He argues he was left with no other option, just as businesses did in the licence-permit raj era. That makes a case for the powers-that-be to set up institutions that act as facilitators than as needless, excessive regulators of innovaton and thought.

The movie is clearly a based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani, potraying so many milestones in his life.
Ambani spent his early life in Yemen, while Guru does so in Turkey doing similar jobs. Guru prospers in the same business as Ambani and pioneers the same idea of raising capital from the public. Ambani too was at the receving end of a series of exposes by the Indian Express under Ramnath Goenka (similar Mithun's character in the movie), with S. Gurumurthy as one of the chief investigators (Madhavan's character in the movie). Ambani had even suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on the right side in 1986. I wonder, is Arzan Contractor depicting Nusli Wadia?

I was a bit disappointed with the music on hearing it first, but it blends well with the movie.
And Abhishek Bacchan gives a fine performance here.