Bollywood
crazy - the sex guru is here
Only a guru could have predicted
the fate awaiting Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry), a young Indian dance
instructor mesmerized by Broadways footlights a world
away.
Transfixed on a friends promise of
a New York penthouse, a red Mercedes and an endless chorus
line of blonde Baywatch babes, Indias lord of the dance
is going to make it big in America.
But the road to fame in New York is no magic
carpet ride and Ramu winds up juggling the waiters tray
at an Indian restaurant and any audition that comes along.
When Dwain (Michael McKean) of Ramrod Productions
calls, Ramus naked enthusiasm swiftly turns to stagefright
when he discovers he is the unwitting star of an adult movie.
A shy Ramu cannot rise to the occasion and despite sexual
enlightenment from his co-star Sharonna (Heather Graham,)
quickly finds himself jobless on all fronts.
Desperate, he shows up unannounced at a
birthday party catered by his former boss for New Age therapy-crazed
socialite Lexi (Marisa Tomei). But whilst he starts off as
a waiter he soon finds himself thrust into a new role when
the guru employed for the party falls down drunk.
The impromptu curtain call leaves him scrabbling for words
of wisdom. All he can conjure up is Sharonnas peculiar
take on improving ones performance. Like
a genie in a bottle, those words magically rock this crowds
inner beat and transform an inexperienced Ramu into The Guru
of sex.
A smitten Lexi embarks on a quest to heal
the world with her latest discovery, while that discovery
embarks on a quest of his own -- to tap an unsuspecting Sharonna
for a little more soulful wisdom, enlightening
his path to fame and fortune. Suddenly the former dance teacher
becomes student to the porn star but she has secrets of her
own.
Nothing is what it seems in this fish-out-of-water,
cross-cultural comedy of misguided love.
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films
present The Guru, starring Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi
Mistry, Christine Baranski, Michael McKean, Malachy McCourt,
Rob Morrow and Thomas McCarthy. Directed by Daisy von Scherler
Mayer from an original screenplay by Tracey Jackson, Tim Bevan,
Eric Fellner and Michael London are the producers; Shekhar
Kapur, Liza Chasin and Debra Hayward are the executive producers.
John de Borman is director of photography, Mary Ann Kellogg
is the choreographer, Robin Standefer is the production designer,
Michael Clancy is the costume designer and Bruce Green is
the editor.
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