Guru

Guru

Album Category: Hindi, Film
Year: 2007
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Label: Sony Music
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Album Credits: MUSICIANS COORDINATORS: Samidurai, Ganesh. RECORDED & MIXED AT: Panchathan Record Inn, AM Studios, Phase One (Toronto). MUSICIANS: GUITARS: Kabuli, More...
 
Film Credits: DIRECTOR: Mani Ratnam. PRODUCER: Mani Ratnam, G. Srinivasan. SCREENPLAY: Mani Ratnam. DIALOGUE: Vijay Krishna Acharya. ACTOR: Abhishek Bachchan, More...
 
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Song Listing


 
Barso Re Megha Megha
Singer: Shreya Ghoshal, Uday Mazumdar
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Sugam, Filmi
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Tere Bina
Singer: A.R. Rahman, Chinmayi, Murtuza Khan, Qadir Khan
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Sugam, Sufi/Qawwali
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Ek Lo Ek Muft
Singer: Bappi Lahiri, K.S. Chitra
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Filmi, Gujarati Folk
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Mayya
Singer: Maryem Tollar, Chinmayi, Keerthi Sagathia
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Arabic, Filmi
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Ae Hairat-E-Aashiqi
Singer: Hariharan, Alka Yagnik
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Sugam
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Baazi Laga
Singer: Udit Narayan, Madhushree, Swetha Bhargavee
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Filmi
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Jaage Hain Der Tak
Singer: K.S. Chitra, A.R. Rahman, Madras Chorale Group
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Sugam, Western Classical
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Shauk Hai
Singer: Sowmya Raoh
Music Director: A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Genre: Sugam
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Trivia


 

    Album

  • The music and background score of this film featured the accordion prominently, and was played by composer A.R. Rahman himself.
  • This film was loosely based on the real life story of Dhirubhai Ambani's rise to prominence and his conflict with the Indian Express' Ramnath Goenka.
  • This was the last film in which Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai worked together while they were still unmarried. They got married 3 months after the release of this film.

    Song

  • Barso Re Megha Megha - The "Na na re" refrain in this song came from A.R. Rahman's son Ameen. In fact, Rahman almost didn't use the tune of this hook and added it in only when he heard Ameen, who had overheard it while Rahman was composing it, humming it.[MR16]
  • Tere Bina - A.R. Rahman dedicated this song to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The song's title were a riff on the legendary qawwal's popular "Sajna Tere Bina".[MR16]
  • Tere Bina - This song almost did not make the final cut of the movie. When A.R. Rahman first played it to Mani Ratnam, he felt that it would not fit in the film. However, a month before the film's audio release, he changed his mind and included it in the film. The song went on to become a big hit.[MR16]
  • Tere Bina - When A.R. Rahman saw the picturization of this song during the film's making, he felt that the sadness of the character did not match the original, happy mood of the song. Rahman then modified the beginning of the song to give it a sombre mood that matched the picturization.[MR16]
  • Tere Bina - This song was used in the Hollywood animation film "Planes" (2013) in the scene where Dusty, the crop-dusting plane, flies to the Taj Mahal.[1]
  • Mayya - The inspiration for this song's title came to Rahman from a water-seller's cries when Rahman was going for Hajj. "Mayya" is water in Arabic.[MR16]
  • Ae Hairat-E-Aashiqi - A.R. Rahman composed this song using Amir Khusrau's poem "Ae Sharbat-E-Ashiqui". Gulzar wrote the actual lyrics after Rahman had finished the composition.[MR16]
  • Jaage Hain Der Tak - A.R. Rahman recorded this song although it did not fit the film's brief. Mani Ratnam liked it so much when he heard it that he decided to use it as a background theme.[MR16]
  • Jaage Hain Der Tak - Mani Ratnam was inspired by a real-life incident to include this song in the film. Some years ago, his father-in-law, Charu Haasan (Kamal Haasan's elder brother, Suhasini's father) had met with an accident in Paris and had had to be hospitalized. He had suffered from temporary amnesia and Suhasini was advised by his doctors to interact with him to help him regain his memory. Suhasini had sung Carnatic songs she had grown up listening to, and that had helped her father recover and regain his memory. Mani Ratnam wanted to introduce this scenario in the film and when he told A.R. Rahman about it, Rahman suggested the theme he had composed for the background score. Gulzar wrote the lyrics on the spot and the song was recorded a day before the shoot.[MR17]
  • Shauk Hai - This song was part of the film's background score and was not part of its audio release. Sony BMG later released the track separately as a single.



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