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Guru is a film of genre Drama directed by Rajiv Anchal with Mohanlal
Guru (1997)
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Add to a movie listGuru (literally "the teacher and spiritual guide") is a 1997 Indian Malayalam-language fantasy film film written by C.G. Rajendra Babu and directed by Rajiv Anchal. Mohanlal played the lead role in the film, while Nedumudi Venu, Srinivasan, Suresh Gopi, Sithara, Kaveri Muralidharan and Sreelakshmi appeared in supporting roles.
The film was selected as India's official entry to the Oscars to the Best Foreign Film category.
The original musical score and songs were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. He composed and conducted his symphonic score with musicians from the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Hungary.
Synopsis
Guru is a fantasy film. It is highly symbolic and makes a statement on terrorism by religions and the evils of the world. The story starts in small peaceful village in India. There is peace between the Hindus and the Muslims that live there. They all get along like family. Raghurāman (Mohanlal) is the son of the local Hindu temple's priest. When an ambitious politician's (NF Varghese) goons disguised as Muslims cause trouble at the local temple, tensions break out between the two communities. The tensions soon flame into a religious riot. Muslims and Hindus began killing each other for the sake of their own religions. Raghurāman joins Hindu gang which is about to attack a group of Muslims who have taken refuge in a guru's asram (a place where a holy guru lived and worked). But at a point Raghurāman has an out of the world experience in the asram.Actors
Mohanlal
(Raghuraman)
Suresh Gopi
(Vijayanthan)
Sithara
(Vaidehi)
Kaveri
(Princes Syamantaga.)
Murali
(Sahib Abdullah)
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