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The Guru (1969 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Guru' is a 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 - Chris
*Aparna Sen - Ghazala
*Zohra Sehgal - Mastani
*Saeed Jaffrey - Murad
Box office
According to Fox records, the film required $1,675,000 in theatrical rentals to break even. By 11 December 1970, it had only made $625,000 in rentals, causing the studio to take a loss. This was equivalent to estimated box office gross receipts of approximately .
References
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