| Tamassu | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Agni Shridhar |
| Produced by | Syed Aman |
| Written by | Agni Shridhar |
| Starring | Shivarajkumar, Padmapriya, Nasser |
| Music by | Sandeep Chowta |
| Cinematography | Sundarnath Suvarna |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
Tamassu is an Indian Kannada-language movie directed by journalist Agni Shridhar, starring Shivarajkumar and Padmapriya.[1] The movie was released on June 11, 2010 and received extremely positive reviews. The story was inspired by a Hindu-Muslim incident in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat communal riots.[2]
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Shankar (Shivarajkumar) is an honest police officer and his wife Shanthi (Padmapriya) is a humanist doctor. They have a loving marriage but soon realize that their ways of thinking are very different; she calls him a trigger-happy policeman. Meanwhile, he is seriously injured in a communal riot. Nasser Khan (Nasser), a retired lecturer, and his daughter Amrin Sabha (Harshika Poonacha) shelter him and treat him without knowing that he is the one who encountered his son and Amrin's brother Imran (Yash). After realising the plight of Amrin and Nasser, his vision changes toward society.
Thamassu started its shooting at Kanteerava Studios on 23 October 2009.[3] It was shot in and around Bangalore.
Bangalore's Regional Censor Officer Nagaraj sent the trailers of Tamassu to Sharmila Tagore, the Central Board of Film Certification chairperson, who felt that the film has a sensitive subject and it was better if a senior police officer watched the film along with the Censor officers to avoid controversy after the release of the film. So the additional Director General of Police watched the film along with the Regional Censor Board officers and they demanded that producer cut some dialogues in the movie. However, the producer sent it to the Revising Committee and they gave an A certificate to the movie without any cuts.[4]
The music was scored by Sandeep Chowta.
| SL.No | Song | Vocal artist | Lyrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Karagadiru" | Roop Kumar Rathod | |
| 2 | "Maar Maar" | Nakash Aziz | |
| 3 | "Nannanena" | Shaan, Sowmya Rao | |
| 4 | "Nodu Baare" | Master Saleem, Neha Kakkar | |
| 5 | "Tamassu" | Neha Kakkar |