Shankar Guru is an Indian Tamil-language action film released in 1987, directed by L. Raja and produced by M. Saravanan, M. Balasubramanian, and M. S. Guhan via AVM Productions.
The film stars Arjun, Seetha, Rajani, and Baby Shalini, and was shot simultaneously in Telugu as Chinnari Devatha with Raja Naidu as director.
In the movie, a fruit stall owner named Sankarguru/Babu becomes a reluctant hero when he intervenes in an incident involving the youngest brother, Nagaraju, who attempts to molest a young school teacher, Rekha. The film follows Sankarguru's actions against the crime ring led by his eldest brother Kanagaraj.
The movie was commercially successful in both languages and was released on 19 March 1987.