Sanjay (Nitin Chandra Ganatra), a young artist on the dole, can't get past his father's disapproval and commit to his black girlfriend. When she leaves him, he tries to forget her by taking on a bet proposed by his partying friends: if he can sleep with seven different women in seven days, he'll become a "guru." What has the makings of a tactless sex comedy is actually a fresh blast of free-form energy with a poignant edge. Shani Grewal's restless camera prowls through suburban homes, art galleries, and a gangster's lair, with brief stops in Paris and Bombay for flashbacks, and along the way touches on the drive and desperation that are part of life in the Asian diaspora. A lesson in low-budget ingenuity, Guru has more insight and variety of incident than most films made for a hundred times its budget.-Gavin Smith.