The Guru is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory. A rock star, Tom Pickle , travels to India to learn to play the sitar with the great musician Ustad Zafar Khan . Khan is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.
| Release date: | February 10, 1969 |
| Directed by: | James Ivory |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ismail Merchant |
| Editor: | Prabhakar Supare, Humphrey Dixon |
| Music by: | Ustad Vilayat Khan |
| Cinematography: | Subrata Mitra |
| Screenplay by: | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory |