Som

We are in Sri Ram College, Muzaffarnagar, discussing the impact of Bollywood on small towns. “Guru shows how it’s okay to bribe if it helps to get your work done”, affirms a rather forthright Reshu, a student of management studies who goes on to explain how the Mani Ratnam film fired up his entrepreneurial ambitions. For this small-town boy with big dreams, the intuitive craftiness of the film’s protagonist, Gurukant Desai, was a more assured way to success than, perhaps, the business theories outlined in textbooks.

Actually, this supposed biopic of business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani was the first significant, and, perhaps, the only sweeping celebration of hard-nosed private enterprise—a village boy who rises up in the corporate world by breaking every rule and subverting the system—in the otherwise idealistic, socialistic frame of Hindi cinema.

More HERE