Sivappathigaram

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Sivappathigaram
File:Sivappathigaram.jpg
Directed byKaru Pazhaniappan
Produced byM. R. Mohan Ratha
B. S. Radhakrishnan
Written byKaru Pazhaniappan
StarringVishal
Mamta Mohandas
Raghuvaran
Upendra Limaye
Manivannan
Rajan P. Dev
Ganja Karuppu
Music byVidyasagar
CinematographyGopinath
Edited bySuresh Urs
Production
company
Screen Play Entertainment Ptd. Ltd.
Distributed byScreen Play Entertainment Ptd. Ltd.
Release date
24 November 2006
Running time
127 minutes
LanguageTamil

Sivappathigaram is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language political action film written and directed by Karu Pazhaniappan. The film stars Vishal, Mamta Mohandas, Manivannan, Rajan P. Dev, Upendra Limaye, Ganja Karuppu and Raghuvaran. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Vidyasagar. The film's climax was shot during the Annual Azhagar festival in Madurai. Mamta Mohandas made her debut in Tamil with this film. Later on, the film was also dubbed and released in Hindi under the title Aaj Ka Naya Kamina.

Plot[edit]

Former IAS officer and Professor Dr. Elango (Raghuvaran) returns to his native village near Theni with his college-going daughter Charulatha (Mamta Mohandas). He has taken voluntary retirement from a College in Chennai and has come to live in his ancestral house. He plans to do research on folk songs and release the collection as a book. His former student Sathyamoorthy (Vishal) visits to assist him in this venture. Charu falls head over heels for Sathya, on keenly observing his intellect, humaneness, and social awareness.

Meanwhile, general elections are announced to the state legislature, and the parties start finalizing the candidates for the constituencies. When the candidates start filing nominations, dreadful things happen. Some candidates from both major parties are murdered, and all the candidates get jittery. A lot of candidates withdraw from the fray fearing death. The parties are in a fix on what to do. The police is on the hunt for the killer. The election commission postpones the elections.

When the police tightens their noose and ties loose ends, the killer is traced. The trail leads to Sathya, and it is found that he is aided in this bloodshed by Elango. The police arrests Elango. At the same time, Charu reveals her mind to Sathya during their travel to Hyderabad. Sathya reveals his undercover deeds.

Three years ago, Satya was a final year management student in Elango's class. Satya's widowed father (Manivannan) also worked in the same college's canteen. When by-elections are announced for Chennai-Central constituency, Satya and his mates, under Elango's guidance, conduct an opinion-poll of the candidates as a field project. They announce the opinion results two days before polling, which said that the opposition's candidate will win. The election give the same result and the ruling party's candidate is angry at losing such an easy chance, and he plans to take revenge with help of the home minister. On the day of Satya's convocation, the police raid the college under the false pretense of looking for drugs. During the fight, Satya's father and around 30 students hide in the canteen. The ruling party candidate leaks cooking gas into the closed room and sets it on fire. All 31 people die, and the management reports it as a freak accident. These events force Satyamoorthy and Elango to resort to the task of cleansing the society of the current breed of dangerous, inhuman and selfish politicians during elections.

Later, Sathya escapes from the police's net and makes another attempt at the Home Minister in Madurai. Whether he succeeds in his attempts and was able to send out the message correctly to the people forms the rest of the story.

Cast[edit]

Actor Role
Vishal Sathyamoorthy
Mamta Mohandas Charulatha
Manivannan Sathyamoorthy's father
Raghuvaran Professor Elango
Upendra Limaye Inspector
Ganja Karuppu Vellai
Rajan P. Dev Idhaya Perumal
Sabarish Sathyamoorthy's friend
Shanmugarajan
Sona Heiden Amusavalli (Mannarkudi song)

Soundtrack[edit]

Sivappathigaram
Soundtrack album by
Released14 November 2006
RecordedVarsha Vallaki Studios
GenreFeature Film Soundtrack
LabelSaregama
ProducerVidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Em Magan
(2006)
Sivappathigaram
(2006)
Poi
(2006)

The soundtracks and background music has been composed by Vidyasagar.[1]

No. Song Title Singers Lyrics
1 "Atrai Thingal" Madhu Balakrishnan, Sujatha Yugabharathi
2 "Chithhiraiyil Enna" Swarnalatha, Karthik, Maalaiamma
3 "Adi Chandira Sooriya" K. A. Gunasekharan, Mahalingam, Muthusami, Palanisami, Gunavathi
4 "Kalloori Salaikkul" Karthik, Jack Smelly, Sunitha Sarathy P. Vijay
5 "Maari Magamaayi" Chinnaponnu
6 "Kolaivalinaai" Kathir, Rahul Nambiar Bharathidasan
7 "Mannarkudi Kalakalakka" Manikka Vinayagam, Rajalakshmi, Chinnaponnu P. Vijay
8 "Poranthiruchi Kalam" T. K. Kala, Ganga, Jayamoorthy, Saindhavi, Mahalingham

Critical reception[edit]

Rediff.com rated the film 1/5, calling it "super-stupid".[2] Nowrunning.com rated the film 2.5/5, writing "The movie is above average and a little more care on the narration style, the screenplay and the characterizations could have definitely made it a big blockbuster."[3]

References[edit]

  1. "404 Error! Page Not Found! - StarMusiQ". www.starmusiq.top. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. "Sivappathigaaram is super-stupid". www.rediff.com.
  3. "Sivapathigaram Review Sivapathigaram Tamil Movie Review by Rajaraman.R". NOWRUNNING.

External links[edit]

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