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Shatru (Bengali pronunciation:; transl. Enemy) is a 1984 Bengali-language action crime film written and directed by Anjan Choudhury in his directorial debut. Produced by Ravindra Aggarwal and Ramkrishna Aggarwal under the banner of Shanti Films Corporation, the film is based on Choudhury's own serialised story Hobo Itihaash, published for his edited weekly magazine Chumki. It stars Ranjit Mallick, Manoj Mitra, Shakuntala Barua and Subhodip Roy Chowdhury in lead roles, while Anup Kumar, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Bikash Roy, Biplab Chatterjee and Nirmal Ghosh play another pivotal roles, with Dilip Roy, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Mahua Roy Chowdhury and Jayshree T in special appearances.

Initially titled after the original story, the film marks the first of the frequent collaborations between Choudhury and Mallick. It is also the only collaboration between Choudhury and Chiranjeet Chakraborty, with making the cinematic debut of Subhodip Roy Chowdhury, credited in the film as Master Tapu. Songs of the film are composed by Dilip-Dilip, while V. Balsara provided its score. The cinematography of the film is handled by Bijoy Ghosh and editing was by Baidyanath Chatterjee.

Shatru was theatrically released on 7 December 1984, after a lengthy battle of the makers with the Central Board of Film Certification over a few scenes in the film that allegedly glorified violence. Opening to huge positive reviews, the film became a blockbuster at the box-office and ran for over 90 weeks in theatres. Gaining a cult status in the history of Bengali cinema, Shatru established Mallick's new image of "Pratibadi Nayak". The character Subhankar Sanyal played by him, was later reused by Choudhury in Jibon Niye Khela (1999), one of their later collaborations.

Shatru was remade under the same title into Hindi by Pramod Chakravorty in 1986, starring Rajesh Khanna. In 2011, it was felicitated in and cited to be an inspiration by Raj Chakraborty for his directorial Shotru starring Jeet.

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