
A documentary about a man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona. At the height of his popularity, the Guru Kumaré must reveal his true identity to his disciples and unveil his greatest teaching of all.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary about a man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona. At the height of his popularity, the Guru Kumaré must reveal his true identity to his disciples and unveil his greatest teaching of all.
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| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAs Kumaré plays out, both Gandhi and the film become something else, something much more thoughtful and moving. It is, as he puts it, the biggest lie he has ever told and the greatest truth he has ever known. |
| Time Out ChicagoBen KenigsbergThe film's notion that the ruse here was okay because it ultimately helped people seems like a specious rationalization. |
| In These TimesMichael AtkinsonThe more he communes with them and hears their very real troubles and genuine hopes, the more Gandhi's clever façade seems, to him and us, unsustainable. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeGandhi is talented enough, and compassionate enough, that his tour of the human need to believe in something becomes not just mocking, but touching. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenSharply shot, edited and costumed doc about a fake Indian guru who teaches his disciples more than he could have imagined. |
| Moveable FestStephen SaitoKumare never has the excruciatingly awkward big laughs of a project like "Borat," but nor does it ever feel as cruel. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA spiritually challenging documentary about guru-disciple relationships and taking responsibility for our own spiritual growth and maturation. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenA goal of this practical program of discipline and reflection is to cultivate an inner guru so that you don't need someone like Kumaré. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyIn an age in America where cult "gurus' inspire women to breast their children into bike-riding age, documentarian Vikram Gandhi puts the cult of Indian religiosity to his own test. |
| The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreEven at a slim 84 minutes, that arc is padded out with side explorations of acoustic therapy and alien-abduction communes that dilute the film's focus and only make it seem like the filmmaker's aware there just isn't much there there. |