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The Guru (DVD) THE GURU, from director Daisy von Scherler Mayer, begins with a young Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry) in a Delhi movie theater, rejecting the extreme song the musical grease play script and dance notions of the local Bollywood cinema for the more glamorous American film musical GREASE. This transformative experience eventually leads Ramu to travel to New York, where he plans to launch a career as a dancing actor like his idol, John Travolta. Though things don't initially work out, he soon finds different kinds of success, both as The Guru of Sex (catering to an aimless socialite played by Marisa Tomei) the musical grease play script and in wooing the woman he loves (Heather Graham), a porn actress with a heart of gold. While Ramu rejects the playfully surreal, over-the-top musical style of Bollywood, director von Scherler Mayer uses it to dual-edged effect in THE GURU: at various times, the scenes set in America suddenly burst into rococo musical production numbers, simultaneously emulating the musical grease play script and poking fun at the Indian cinema tradition. A final number even manages to fuse Bollywood techniques with a send-up of GREASE, resulting in a humorous double homage. DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - French Dolby Digital 5.1 - Spanish Additional Release Material: Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary - 1. Jimi Mistry - Star 2. Daisy Von Sherler Mayer - Director, Tracey Jackson - Screewriter Trailers Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus Text/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Pygmalion The immensely popular the musical grease play script and durable Pygmalion has long been familiar to readers the musical grease play script and audiences as a unique combination the musical grease play script and reworking of two well-known stories, Ovid`s telling of the Pygmalion myth the musical grease play script and Charles Perrault`s Cinderella . According to Berst, Shaw`s heartily derivative play is well on its way to assuming a major place in the mythic tradition alongside these two classics. As he accompanies the reader through each of the play`s five acts, Berst illumines not only Shaw`s understanding of the mythic power of the Pygmalion the musical grease play script and Cinderella stories but also the striking departures he took from them. What results is new insight into the theatrical skill that has made Shaw, in the eyes of many, the greatest English playwright after Shakespeare. Just as Perrault makes Cinderella`s growth from a girl to a woman more important than the hocus-pocus of her transformation , Berst views the spiritual themes in Pygmalion, played out in Eliza`s evolution, as the richest, most enduring locus of Shaw`s thematic intentions. In comparing the different versions of the play - Shaw`s original script, his later revisions, his script for the film version, the musical grease play script and the My Fair Lady script - Berst gives us an unprecedented the musical grease play script and detailed overview of those intentions. Maddeningly, Shaw saw his romance transformed by many directors into a simplistic love story coupling Higgins the musical grease play script and Eliza at the end. Berst`s account of Shaw`s exasperated efforts to thwart such stagings of Pygmalion - he tried, often unsuccessfully, to forbid any suggestion that the middle-aged bully the musical grease play script and the girl of eighteen are lovers - is highly entertaining the musical grease play script and bemusing. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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