Reception
The Guru received a 58% Tomatometer rating, with 50 of 86 reviewers giving the film a "fresh" rating. Based on 30 reviews, the film's Metacritic score was 47 ("mixed").
After viewing it at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Derek Elley, reviewing it for Variety, called it a "generally entertaining but rather old-fashioned romantic comedy" whose "basic plot of a naive Indian stumbling through white U.S. society...shows little advance in attitudes and humor on Blake Edwards' 1968 comedy The Party." A BBC review said it "stirs together Bollywood and Hollywood, satire and romance, to create an appealing masala dish of a movie."
After its U.S. premiere, Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it a "nervy conceptual hybrid" that "lurch between a loudmouthed sitcom and a crude social satire" and noted that "behind its Hollywood-meets-Bollywood banner, The Guru... is a grindingly conventional comedy that insists on tying up its subplots in pretty ribbons and bows."
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