The Guru (1969)

Name: The Guru
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 1969-02-10
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt, Madhur Jaffrey, Barry Foster

112 min★ 5.3 · 194 votes

Comedy
Music

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Release date: February 10, 1969
Country of origin: United States, India

Trailer

Cast

Rita Tushingham as Jenny
Michael York as Tom Pickle
Utpal Dutt as Ustal Zafar Khan
Madhur Jaffrey as Begum Sahiba
Barry Foster as Chris
Aparna Sen as Ghazala
Zohra Sehgal as Mastani
Saeed Jaffrey as Murad
Nana Palsikar as The Guru's Guru
Nadira as Courtesan

Crew

James Ivory · Director
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · Writer
James Ivory · Writer
Ismail Merchant · Producer
Ustad Vilayat Khan · Composer
Subrata Mitra · Cinematographer
Prabhakar Supare · Editor
Bansi Chandragupta · Production designer