Guru (1997)

Embedded with fierce action and charged emotion, this social drama delves deep into concepts of terrorism, hatred and the evils of violence.

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. Raghurāman joins a Hindu gang which is about to attack a group of Muslims who have taken refuge in a guru's ashram, a place where a holy guru lived and worked). But at a point Raghurāman has an out of the world experience in the ashram.

He is now in the country of the blind. He is taken to a world where everyone is blind and where people do not believe in the sense of sight. Raghurāman saves a man from death and befriends him. He is astonished by the perfect activities of the citizens. They actually believe it as a sin to think that there is a thing called sight. Their children are taught that there is no world of sight. When Raghurāman tries to tell them that there is a world of sight and that he can see, they don't believe him. They consider him evil because he can do things that they can't.

Raghurāman eats a common fruit that they have in that land. He finds out the hard way that this tasty addictive fruit is the cause of their blindness. Now that he is blind and helpless the kings soldiers, whom he had evaded before because of his sight, captures him.

The king (Suresh Gopi) sentences him to death by drinking the extract from the seeds of the same fruit that made him blind. This form of punishment has never been given to anyone before. The seeds of the addictive fruit that Reghuraman eats is considered to be fatally poisonous. After the soldiers carry out the sentence he is left to die. But instead he sees that his blindness is cured by the seeds extract.

He then spreads the message throughout the kingdom. Some people take the seeds and experience sight. The people with sight try to take revenge on the people without sight. Raghurāman stops this with a wonderful speech. In the end everyone including the king is convinced to take the fruit. He is brought back into the normal world by the Guru's spirit. Raghurāman realizes that his thirst for revenge is a sin. He stops the riot gang's plan to kill the Muslims by blasting a bomb.