Guru (1980 film)

Guru
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Directed by	I. V. Sasi
Produced by	Prakash R. C.
Written by	Hassan Brothers
Starring	Kamal Haasan Sridevi Muthuraman Mohan Babu M. N. Nambiar
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent
Edited by	K. Narayanan
Production company	Shiv Sakthi Films
Release date	18 July 1980 (1980-07-18)
Running time	159 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	₹2.26 crore

Guru (English: Teacher) is a 1980 Tamil-language drama film directed by I. V. Sasi. The film features Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in the lead roles while M. N. Nambiar, Muthuraman and Mohan Babu play supporting roles. The film opened in July 1980 to positive reviews. It was a blockbuster and completed a 365-day run at the box office. The film, a bi-lingual was made in Telugu language as well with the same title. This film is remake of Dharmendra starrer superhit Hindi film Jugnu.

A young man Raghu sets up an explosive in a railway track to blow up a train. Raghu is a freedom fighter who wants to destroy the train in which British officers are travelling. He returns home after his successful attempt and is slammed by his rich father who is an ardent supporter of the British. Raghu insists that his country and its freedom are more important than anything. When police comes to arrest Raghu, his father hands him to them but Raghu's pregnant wife Parvati diverts the police and lets her husband escape. Raghu escapes in his bike and meets with an accident and is declared dead.

Parvati gives birth to a son named Ashok and ten years pass by. She is away from her father-in-law and still in a belief that her husband is alive and shall come to them one day. Ashok wins prizes in various competitions in his school and he bags many cups distributed by Raghu's father. Seeing Ashok's brilliance,he reminds of his son and sets for search of his daughter-in-law and her child without knowing that Ashok is his grandson. His accountant who is a cunning man tries to make use of the situation and pretends to search his boss's grandchild. Meanwhile, Ashok attacks a landlord for trying to rape his mother. The landlord kills Ashok's mother in revenge and Ashok kills him in turn. The accountant witnessing this makes use of the opportunity and brings his relative boy and tells his boss that the boy is his grandson Ramesh. Ashok escapes from the place after killing the landlord.

Years pass by and Ashok now a grown up young man who lives like a Robin Hood under the name Guru. He manages to nab a collection of diamonds and money from diamond smugglers and escape from a running train. While on his way he hears a gunshot and hides his things in a car thinking that police is chasing him. But the gunshot is heard from shooting by a young girl named Sujatha who was showing her gun shooting talents to her friends. He teases her and both get into fight. Sujatha leaves angrily from the place in the car where Ashok hid his diamond and money suitcase. He follows her to her home which is the home of Commissioner of Police. He cuts the power supply and enters inside the house disguised like an aged electrician. He recovers his suitcase and leaves the place. After he left Sujatha finds that the electrician has forgot his suitcase and rushes to hand it over to him. Her uncle opens the suitcase only to find Guru has visited the place.