What is "gurukul"

n. A type of school in India and in several other countries, residential in nature, with pupils ''shishya'' living near the guru, often within the same house.

Gurukul is a 2015 Marathi language film which was released on 7, August 2015 to a grand wide opening, written and directed by Rommel Rodrigues. It is a social drama that revolves around a higher education institution named Gurukul which is spread on a sprawling campus in a town called Ranjangaon with residential facilities for its students coming from all parts of the state. The film tells the story about the head of Gurukul, Nanasaheb Vishwanath Gokhale fondly called as Guruji by one and all, how he is oustered by a vicious politician and the struggle by former students to restore the glory of Gurukul..