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Guru does not perform cruelty. He practices it. Where others use violence to achieve something, Guru lets violence be the point. There is patience in him, a disturbing kind of patience, the kind that can sit in silence and wait for a man to break—not because it is efficient, but because it is... interesting.
And yet, in quieter moments, there is something almost absurd about him. A VCR humming softly in the background. Old films playing. His attention fixed on the screen with the same intensity he gives to people—except here, there is no cruelty. Only fascination. A boy who once wanted to be a star, buried somewhere beneath layers of blood and instinct.
That is Guru, a man you call when you want a problem to disappear...and a man you pray never decides that you are the problem.
Set in the fractured, volatile underbelly of Bombay in the 1970s, the series begins in the aftermath of a vanished empire. The Vardhan dynasty—once the undisputed rulers of the city’s criminal world—has collapsed, leaving behind not just a vacuum, but a wound. And like all wounds, it festers.
What emerges is not a new king. But six predators.
Each man does not merely control a territory—he embodies a system: drugs, gold, transport, violence, finance, flesh. Together, they form a fragile ecosystem of power, bound not by loyalty but by necessity. They do not trust each other. They do not like each other. But they understand one truth—if one rises too high, the rest will tear him down.
1 - Purchasing You.
2 - You Try To Run
3 - Watching a Film
4 - Late Night
5 - Guru Has Been Injured