Rating: ★★★ Studio / Presenter: Srihit Production Producer: Meghna Manoj Caculo Director: Girish Mohite Story: Swapnil Gangurde Music: Avinash – Vishwajeet Cast: Sai Tamhankar, Upendra Limaye, Sulabha Arya, Vidhita Kale, Rajiv Hede, Sushant Nayak Genre: Romantic, Drama Movie Review by: Sanskruti Bhatkar

Director Girish Mohite has in the past given much talked about films on distinctive subjects like ‘Hi Porgi Kunachi’, ‘Be Dune Sade Char’, ‘Pratibimba’ and ‘Bharatiya’. ‘Guru Pournima’ is the first romantic love story directed by Girish Mohite. Produced by Meghna Caculo under Srihit Production’s, the film has been picturised at Goa.

Guru-Pournima is a love story of a Creative Director- Guru and a struggling actress Pournima, who is ambitious and leaves her parents and family, to pursue her acting career. In this film, Sai Tamhankar has played a double role, that of Guru’s wife and daughter .

The film begins with the flashback of Guru’s( Upendra Limaye), love story which happens twenty years back. After 20 years , Guru is shown sitting on tha college platform, refreshing his sweet memories. Guru who was in the past, an aspiring director, makes a telefilm. It is during this period Guru and Pournima’s (Sai Tamhankar) love story begins and grows . Her parents do not allow her to work in the film and she disobeys them and leaves home. Then, Guru and his mother ask her to stay with them. Guru’s mother ( Sulabha Arya ) and his friend Prasad , suggest them to get married . two years later, when Pournima is at the peak of her career, Guru and his mother ask Pournima to consider having a baby, but she refuses. After being convinced by Guru, she is then ready to have a baby. At the same time, she gets an offer from Hollywood film maker, but she has to leave the offer, due to her pregnancy. After delivering the baby, she leaves her family for her career and struggles a lot for her ambition.

After 20 years, when Guru’s daughter Akanksha ( Sai Tamhankar in double role ), celebrates her 20th birthday and her Aajji, (grandmother) tells her about her parents; Akanksha decides to bring them together. She requests her father to cast her as a co-actress, along with Pournima, in the new ad film, being made by Guru. When Pournima comes to know that her daughter is her co-artist in this ad film, she walks out of the film. How the daughter finally brings the family together, is to be seen in the concluding part of the film.

Sai and Upendra have for the first time come together and there is a good chemistry between them. The whole film has been shot in Panjim, Goa. Nice locations, good script by Swapnil Gangurde , a melodius song ‘Aikavi Watate’ sung by Swapnil Bandodkar and Bela Shende and above all, the excellent acting performances of Sai Tamhankar, Upendra Limaye and Sulabha Arya, are the plus points of the film.

‘Guru Pournima’ is a simple and lovable love story. A person of any age can enjoy this movie.