As the release date of January 12 comes close, Mani Ratnam talks about his film GURU.

"If you are ambitious, if you have dreams, India is the place for you - today. But it wasn't like this always. After independence, we were a huge nation, a young nation, where abstinence was respectable, ambition was not; where society took precedence over the individual.

Today we have moved from left of center to the right. When did this happen? How did this happen? Or did it happen in front of us and we couldn't see it? GURU is a revisiting of that time, of those decades during which India changed, slowly but surely.

And the mirror for that change is the life of one man - GURUKANT DESAI!"