Villager…Visionary….Winner….The master is back. And he is back to his supremely different ways. To his credit, the muse sparkles brilliantly as if clay turning into a priceless mural. The promo of Mani Rathnam’s ‘Guru’ is a spellbinding experience that leaves you stunned. For it is a treatise in transition from a simple villager taking pleasure in honking a school bell, climbing the temple stairs to an ambitious businessman who enthuses his workers to dream of becoming the biggest private company of India.

Abhishek Bachchan is looking stunningly real. The childish scampering of youth merges with the confidence of an entrepreneur conjuring big plans. Eyes of eagle can envisage the consequential future while making tough manipulative decisions. There’s a changing graph in his body language for it is apparent that he put on weight for the part when he is shown to have grown in years. His comfortable stance with Aishwariya Rai is palpable. A R Rahman’s goose-pimple-evoking background score creates an unmistakable aura of its own.

In other words, ‘Guru’ seems to be an amazingly promising film from whatever one can make from the sixty second promo that captures moods and has minimal dialogues. I guess, it’s going to be another landmark film in Abhishek Bachchan’s career.