reviewers giving the film a "fresh" rating. The site's consensus reads, "A sweetly silly but wafer-thin romantic comedy." Based on 30 reviews, the film's Metacritic score is 47 ("mixed"). After viewing it at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Derek Elley, reviewing it for Variety, called it a "generally entertaining but rather old-fashioned sex comedy" whose "basic plot of a naive Indian stumbling through white U.S. society...shows little advance in attitudes and humor on Blake Edwards' 1968 comedy The Party." A BBC review said it "stirs together Bollywood and Hollywood, satire and romance, to create an appealing masala dish of a movie." After its U.S. premiere, Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it a "nervy conceptual hybrid" that "lurch[es] between a loudmouthed sitcom and a crude social satire" and noted that "behind its Hollywood-meets-Bollywood banner, The Guru... is a grindingly conventional comedy that insists on tying up its subplots in pretty ribbons and bows." References External links 2002 films 2002 romantic comedy films American romantic comedy films American sex comedy films British Indian films British romantic comedy films British sex comedy films 2000s English-language films English-language French films Films about pornography Films directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer Films produced by Eric Fellner Films produced by Tim Bevan French films set in New York City Films shot in New York City French romantic comedy films French sex comedy films Films about Indian Americans StudioCanal films Universal Pictures films Working Title Films films British films set in New York City 2000s American films 2000s British films 2000s French films