| The Guru | |
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala James Ivory |
| Starring | Rita Tushingham Michael York Utpal Dutt Madhur Jaffrey Barry Foster (actor) Aparna Sen Zohra Sehgal Dina Pathak Saeed Jaffrey |
| Music by | Ustad Vilayat Khan |
| Cinematography | Subrata Mitra |
| Editing by | Prabhakar Supare Humphrey Dixon (assistant) |
| Studio | Merchant Ivory Productions |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 112 min |
| Language | English, Urdu |
The Guru (1969) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.
A rock star, Tom Pickle (Michael York), travels to India to learn to play the sitar with the great musician Ustad Zafar Khan (as George Harrison did when he studied under Ravi Shankar). Khan is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.