Tamassu is an Indian Kannada-language movie directed by journalist Agni Shridhar, starring Shivaraj Kumar and Padma Priya.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.Shankar (Shivaraj Kumar) is an honest police officer and his wife Shanthi (Padma Priya) 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.