While some films with South Asian influences, such as “The Sixth Sense” and “Moulin Rouge,” deserve the recognition that has been awarded them, films like “The Guru” place a black mark on the film industry. In a confusing attempt to draw the audience into divergent lifestyles, ranging from those of porn stars, Manhattan elites and I.N.S.-dodging taxi drivers, “The Guru” fails to capture much of anything relevant.
- Todd Weiser
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Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry, “East is East”), a dancer from India, embarks to New York in search of the “American Dream” – the penthouse and the Mercedes-Benz – only to realize that very few people ever possess such riches. While stuck in a waiter’s job at an Indian restaurant in the famed Jackson Heights district of Queens, the frustratingly na