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'''''Sevasadanam''''' ({{Translation|House of Service}}) is a 1938 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[K. Subrahmanyam]]. It is one of the early Tamil films to be set in a contemporary social setting and to advocate reformist social policies. This was the first film for [[M. S. Subbulakshmi]].<ref name="A">{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/07/10/stories/09100224.htm|title=The stamp of honour|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=10 July 2000|access-date=20 January 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806041332/http://www.thehindu.com/2000/07/10/stories/09100224.htm|archive-date=6 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="B">{{cite book | first=S. Theodore| last=Baskaran | author-link=S. Theodore Baskaran | year= 1996| title=The eye of the serpent: an introduction to Tamil cinema | publisher= East West Books| location= Chennai| pages=15 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhFlAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref name="C">{{cite book | first=Yves| last= Thoraval| year= 2000| title= The cinemas of India | publisher= Macmillan | location= India| pages=37 | isbn= 0-333-93410-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OpkAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref name="D">{{cite book | first1= Ashish | last1=Rajadhyaksha| first2=Paul  |last2=Willemen| year= 1994| title= Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema | publisher= British Film Institute| pages=259 | isbn=0-85170-455-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOZkAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref name="E">{{cite book | last=Film News Anandan| language= ta| year= 2004 | title=Sadhanaigal padaitha Tamil Thiraipada Varalaaru | publisher=Sivagami Publications| location= Chennai| pages=28:14}}</ref>

No print of ''Sevasadanam'' is known to survive, making it a [[lost film]]. While K. Subrahmanyam's family only have a few surviving photographs related to the film in their possession, the complete set of 78 rpm gramophone records in their original envelopes has survived in the collection of musicologist [[V. A. K. Ranga Rao]] in Chennai.<ref>{{cite book | title=M. S. Subbulakshmi: The Definitive Biography | publisher=Aleph Book Company | last=George | first=T. J. S. | author-link=T. J. S. George | year=2016 | pages=99 | isbn=978-93-84067-60-1 | orig-date=2004}}</ref>