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Director
  
A. L. Vijay

Duration
  

Country
  
India

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Family

Music director
  
G. V. Prakash Kumar

Language
  
Saivam movie poster
Release date
  
27 June 2014 (2014-06-27)

Songs
  
Oray Oru Ooril

Cast
  
Nasser
(Kathiresan), (Thamizhselvi),
Luthfudeen Baashaa
(Senthil), (Maiyappan), (AL. K. S. Swamigal),
Vidya
(Thenmozhi)

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A girl hides her grandfathers rooster to save it from being sacrificed for good luck.

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Saivam movie scenes

Saivam (English: Vegetarian) is a Tamil film written, directed and produced by A. L. Vijay. The film features Nassar in the lead role and child actress Sara Arjun plays another pivotal role, while the directors regular crew of cinematographer Nirav Shah and composer G. V. Prakash Kumar also worked on the project. The film was released on 6 June 2014. The film was remade in Telugu as Dagudumootha Dandakor.

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Tamizhselvi, a little girl, is the darling of the Kathiresan household. She is fond of her pet rooster Paapa, but her grandfather Kathiresan plans to offer Paapa as a sacrifice to their god in the interest of his family. What happens when the rooster goes missing?

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Plot

Kathiresan (Nassar) is the head of a large family which consists of three of his sons and a daughter and their respective families. Everyone get together at his house for a vacation. When the entire family goes to their temple on a given day, some ill fated events occur. The family thinks it is because it had forgotten to perform a ritual sacrifice which involved the slaughter of a rooster known as Paappa (a rooster), which was part of their poultry. This thought is fueled all the more by each family member blaming this to be the cause for all their problems both at home and at work. Kathiresan decides to sacrifice Paappa in the upcoming festival, and the family rests assured that all their problems will disappear eventually after the ritual. Then, suddenly, Paappa goes missing.

The members of the family are aghast at Paappas disappearance and begin searching for it. It turns out that Kathiresans grand daughter Tamizhselvi (Sara Arjun) hides Paappa in the attic in order to save it from getting slaughtered. Tamizhselvi loves Paappa so much that she cannot stand to see it die. The rest of the story revolves around Tamizhselvis attempts to save Paappa from being slaughtered and the familys attempts to find the rooster and performing the ritual. In doing so, the film showcases the lost values of family tradition and a childs innocent love for a rooster.

The climax and ending of the movie properly lights the shades of character shown as dark earlier. Though parts of the movie seemed a bit dramatic but the ending completes the circle of idea created from the movie and its title to a real incident in the life of director Vijays mum.

Cast

  • Nassar as Kathiresan
  • Sara Arjun as Tamizhselvi
  • Suresh as Meiyappan
  • Shanmugarajan as AL. K. S. Swamigal
  • Luthfudeen Baashaa as Senthil
  • George Mariyan as Raja
  • Master Ray Paul as Saravanan
  • Lakshmanan Ganesh as Ganeshan
  • Shakti as Kumaran
  • Suchitra as Usha
  • Kousalya as Vishalakshi
  • Rajalakshmi as Dhanalakshmi
  • Vidhya as Thenmozhi
  • Kalyani Natarajan as Meenakshi
  • Twara Desai as Abhirami
  • Vittal as Ramanathan
  • Ravi as Balamurugan
  • Master Rahil Singhi as Karthik
  • Kala as Kala
  • Savithri as Kamatchi
  • Production

    In June 2013, Vijay revealed that after the completion of Thalaivaa (2013), he would work on a rural based subject featuring child actress Sara Arjun of Deiva Thirumagal fame in the lead role. Reports initially suggested that Vikram would also play a character but his unavailability meant that the director had chosen to approach Arya instead. Arya however denied reports, stating that Vijay had yet to approach him and only then would he consider portraying a role. Vijay announced his new production studio, Think Big Studios, would make the film and stated that the film would be about a childs love for her rooster. Most of the teams technical crew including the composer G. V Prakash and the cinematographer, Nirav Shah, worked without taking any remuneration for the film as an ode to their friendship with Vijay. The first look poster of the film, featuring a rooster, was released on 16 November 2013 indicating that the films production was underway. The team, featuring mostly a new cast, completed most of the schedule in a thirty day stint in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu.

    Vijay released more information regarding the cast in January 2014 and announced that the son of actor Nassar, Luthfudeen, would make his acting debut in the film and would have the stage name of Senthil. He would appear alongside another debutant, Twara Desai, while Nassar would play Senthils grandfather in the film. Filming was completed within forty days and a series of promotional stills featuring the lead cast were released before a press release in March 2014. Talking further about the movie, Vijay revealed that Saivam would be about family values and hoped it would instill lost family traditions into the audiences, noting that he was inspired by his visits back to his home village.

    Soundtrack

    The films audio soundtrack and trailer were released on 5 April 2014 at a launch event in Chennai. An ambience of a village was created outside the venue, while all male guests were asked to wear a dhoti to the event. The album was released by Gautham Menon, Anushka Shetty and Amala Paul, while each song from the film was introduced to the audience by different film personalities including Jayam Ravi, Vijay Sethupathi and Siddharth.

    Singer Unnikrishnans eight-year-old daughter Uthara Unnikrishnan recorded the song "Azhagu". The film also features a song with performances from Chinna Ponnu and Gaana Bala, a melody sung by Haricharan and two instrumental tracks composed by G. V. Prakash. Behindwoods.com called it "an album of pure melodies and emotions", giving particular praise to Uttharas rendition of her song.

    Baby Utthara Unnikrishnan won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer, becoming the youngest winner of the prestigious award. The songs were penned by Na. Muthukumar, and he had gotten the National Award for Best Lyricist.

    Release

    The satellite rights of the film were sold to STAR Vijay. The film was given a "U" certificate by the Indian Censor Board.

    Songs

  • Oray Oru Ooril (Azhagu)

  • 5:42 (Kokkara Kozhi)

  • Azhagu (Instrumental) (3:59)

  • Moments of Life
  • Critical reception

    Rediff praised the movie, saying "Good dialogues, great characterisation with opportunities for everyone to prove themselves, plenty of humour and a light-hearted romance makes this family drama an extremely engaging affair." The Times Of India said, "In all of his films so far, Vijay has struggled with the pacing but here, he is bang on and the slightly laid-back pace of the film fits its setting beautifully. It is no surprise that Saivam is his best — not to mention, his most original — film yet." The Hindus Baradwaj Rangan praised the movie as "a film that infuses artistry into a generally light-hearted entertainment. You can sense that Saivam is an all-round labour of love. There isn’t an iota of cynical calculation in it."

    References

    Saivam Wikipedia
    Saivam IMDb Saivam themoviedb.org