A mild masala for North American audiences, The Guru is Hollywood's idea of East meets West, piggybacked on a framework of hijinks and by-the-numbers romantic comedy hokum.

The resulting fluff might seem fairly plastic next to, for example, Deepa Mehta's Hollywood Bollywood. But The Guru is reasonably crowd-pleasing nonetheless, with several good laughs and cuteness amped just short of the limits of tolerance.
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