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Released
2007 · FILM

Guru

A visionary drifter rises from Bombay’s slums to build an empire, battling ruthless rivals and his own ambition to become the nation’s most powerful tycoon.

“Think big, think ahead and think fast.”

Directed by
Mani Ratnam
Written by
Mani Ratnam, Vijay Krishna Acharya
Runtime
166 min
Language
HI
Drama
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

In 1958, a villager named Gurukant Desai arrives in Bombay and rises from the city's streets to become India's biggest tycoon.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by A Sreekar PrasadShot by Rajiv MenonScored by A R RahmanDesigned by Samir Chanda

Box Office

2007 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$31.0M

Budget$4.7M
Worldwide gross$31.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $2.1M — 7% of worldwide · International: $28.9M (93%)

Opening weekend: $760K — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.0M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 71 theaters

Also known as

  • Guru - Verliere nie die Hoffnungde

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