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Sivaji

Theatrical release poster

Directed by S. Shankar

Produced by M. S. Guhan
M. Saravanan

Written by S. Shankar

Starring Rajinikanth
Shriya Saran
Vivek
Suman

Music by A. R. Rahman

Cinematography K. V. Anand
 Edited by Anthony Gonsalves

Production AVM Productions

company

Distributed by AVM Productions

Release date  14 June 2007 (premiere)

 15 June 2007 (India)

Running time 185 minutes

Country India

Language Tamil

Budget Disputed[a]

Sivaji is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by S. Shankar and produced by AVM
Productions. Rajinikanth and Shriya Saran play the lead roles,
with Suman, Vivek and Raghuvaran playing other significant roles in the film. A. R.
Rahman composed the soundtrack and background music, while Thotta Tharani and K. V.
Anand were the film's art director and cinematographer respectively.
The film revolves around a well-established software systems architect, Sivaji, who returns home to
India after finishing work in the United States. On his return, he dreams of giving back to society with
free medical treatment and education. However his plans face a roadblock in the form of the
influential businessman, Adiseshan. When corruption also arises, Sivaji is left with no option but to
fight the system in his own way.
The film was released worldwide on 15 June 2007 in Tamil, and subsequently released in Telugu as
a dubbed version on the same date. The film was also dubbed in Hindi, which released on 8 January
2010. The film was positively received by critics, and became a commercial success worldwide. It
went on to win a National Film Award, three Filmfare Awards and two Vijay Awards.
The film was converted into 3D and released on 12 December 2012 as Sivaji 3D. The runtime of the
3D version was shorter than the original, cut to 155 minutes, and released amidst moderate fanfare
and fared positively critically and commercially. It also became the first Indian film to use Dolby
Atmos surround sound technology.

Contents

 1Plot
 2Cast
 3Production
o 3.1Development
o 3.2Cast and crew
o 3.3Filming
  4Themes and influences
 5Soundtrack
 6Release
o 6.1Special screenings
o 6.23D re-release
 7Box office
 8Reception
o 8.1Critical response
o 8.2Accolades
 9Notes
 10References
 11Sources
 12External links

Plot[edit]
Sivaji, an Indian software architect, returns to India from the United States. He aims to establish a
non-profit trust called Sivaji Foundation, which includes a network of hospitals and educational
institutions that serve the poor free of charge. An influential businessman, Adiseshan, sees Sivaji as
his competitor because he runs profit-making educational institutions and hospitals. Sivaji is forced
to bribe the corrupt civil service, but eventually, the bribes demanded become so high that he has to
mortgage his house and sell his car to pay them. When Sivaji goes to court, he loses the case filed
against him by Adiseshan regarding the methods Sivaji had used to open his foundation as a result
of bribing numerous government officials. Simultaneously, Sivaji falls in love with a girl named
Tamizhselvi. However, upon asking for his horoscope, an astrologer warns that their union will result
in Sivaji's death. When Tamizhselvi refuses the proposal due to her concern for Sivaji, he calms her
fears and convinces her to marry him.
Following the loss in the court case, Tamizhselvi requests Sivaji out of fear not to come for her
again. Sivaji is reduced to utter poverty. Realising that the methods he used are unlikely to work
again, he decides to play the game his own way. Sivaji, with the help of his uncle Arivu, acquires
evidence of ₹2 billion worth of illegal earnings in Adiseshan's possession and uses the documents to
blackmail Adiseshan into giving him half the money. He further obtains details on people who have
illegal earnings across Tamil Nadu and blackmails them to give him half of their illegal wealth. He
then transfers the money to the bank accounts of his friends around the world by hawala forgery.
They then deposit the money as donations to Sivaji Foundation, making the money usable and
legitimate.
Sivaji informs the Income Tax Investigation and Vigilance Department about the details of the illegal
money held by the tax evaders (including Adiseshan) and gets them arrested. He reopens the
foundation and soon is able to provide free, good quality education, infrastructure, services and
employment to people in every district of Tamil Nadu. Led by Adiseshan, those who were
blackmailed by Sivaji exploit Tamizhselvi's innocence to silence him. Fearing for Sivaji's life, she
hands over Sivaji's laptop to the CBI and Income Tax officers hired by Adiseshan with all the
information regarding the illegal money transactions. With presentable evidence, Sivaji is arrested.
Adiseshan and the police order Sivaji to unlock his laptop. When Sivaji refuses, Adiseshan tortures
him, leaving him for dead. To cover this up, Adiseshan and the police organise for thugs to shoot at
the police van that will carry Sivaji's body, making it look like a murder by a third party. Sivaji,
however, is faking; he was informed of the plans to kill him by a sympathetic police constable prior to
the interrogation. Left alone in the room, he electrifies himself. Sivaji's friend Dr. Chezhian,
Tamizhselvi and Arivu intercept the police van after being informed by Sivaji through a MMS and
replace Sivaji's body with a dummy before the thugs open fire. While everyone thinks that Sivaji is
dead, Chezhian revives him using a defibrillator. Following Sivaji's "death", Adiseshan and the CBI
still try to open Sivaji's laptop by trying to fool the voice-detection program; they fail and all the data
in the laptop is erased.
A few days later, while everyone wonders about the future of Sivaji Foundation, the revived Sivaji
returns to take control of the foundation in the guise of an NRI friend, M. G. Ravichandran. Though
Adiseshan immediately realises that Ravichandran is actually Sivaji, he is unable to prove this to the
police due to the proof of Sivaji's "death" and Ravichandran's identity. Later, Sivaji confronts
Adiseshan and the two fight atop the terrace of Adiseshan's medical college. During the fight,
Adiseshan inadvertently strikes the campus's terrace roof causing money hidden in it to fly around
the campus. The students spot the money and go after it, causing a stampede in which Adiseshan is
killed. Sivaji Foundation soon becomes a frontier for India's economic and industrial rise.

Cast[edit]
 Rajinikanth as Sivaji (M. G. Ravichandran)[4]
 Shriya Saran as Tamizhselvi[5]
 Vivek as Arivu[5]
 Suman as Adiseshan[4]
 Raghuvaran as Dr. Chezhian[5]
 Manivannan as Aarumugam
 Vadivukkarasi as Mrs. Aarumugam
 Cochin Haneefa as A. Kuzhandhaivel
 Solomon Pappayya as Thondaiman
 Pattimandram Raja as Ramalingam
 Shanmugarajan as the Police Inspector who supports Adiseshan
 Pyramid Natarajan as Arivu's lawyer
 M. S. Bhaskar as Pazhanisamy[6]
 Livingston as the Police inspector who has confrontations with
Sivaji[6]
 Uma Padmanabhan as Mrs. Jyothi Ramalingam
 Bose Venkat as Velu
 Vasu Vikram as an MLA
 Mahadevan as the astrologer whom Tamizhselvi consults regarding
her marriage[6]
 Nayantara in a cameo appearance in the song "Baleilakka"[6]
 Ilavarasu in a cameo appearance[7]
 Kanal Kannan in a cameo appearance[7]
 Mayilsamy in a cameo appearance[7]
 A. C. Murali Mohan as a Doctor who provides treatment to
Kuzhandhaivel[7]
 Chinni Jayanth in a cameo appearance[7]
 Dhamu in a cameo appearance[7]
 Swaminathan as a customer who asks for a Kanjira[7][b]
 S. Shankar in a cameo appearance in the song "Baleilakka"[8]
 K. V. Anand in a cameo appearance in the song "Baleilakka"[8]
 Thota Tharani in a cameo appearance in the song "Baleilakka"[8]

Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Following the success of his film Jeans (1998), S. Shankar wrote a script for his next film
titled Mudhalvan (1999) having Rajinikanth in mind for the lead role.[9] However, Rajinikanth could not
act in the film due to schedule conflicts with Padayappa (1999).[10] Hence the role went to Arjun
Sarja.[11] Post Anniyan (2005), Shankar decided to take a break before preparing for his next
project.[12]
In August 2005, Rajinikanth signed up for his next film which was to be produced by Chennai's
oldest operative studio, AVM Productions, which was run by M. S. Guhan and M.
Saravanan.[13][14] This time Shankar was confirmed to be the film's director.[13] After consulting Sivaji
Ganesan's family to avoid any issues with the film's name, the project was subsequently announced
on 24 August 2005.[15] The film was titled Sivaji,[15] after Rajinikanth's name at birth – Sivaji Rao
Gaekwad. A tagline, The Boss, which stands for "Bachelor of Social Service", was suffixed to the
title.[16]
In addition to being AVM Productions' 168th film,[17] Sivaji was also Rajinikanth's 154th film,[13] his
100th Tamil film[c] and his ninth film with AVM Productions.[13] According to Rajinikanth's
biographer Naman Ramachandran, the film was also made to commemorate the 100th birth
anniversary of the production company's founder, A. V. Meiyappan.[19]Sivaji was also noted for its
change in the traditional yellow coloured Rajinikanth introductory text which made its debut
with Annamalai. Instead the text is displayed in Chrome.[20]
Cast and crew[edit]
The first choice for the role of the female lead was Aishwarya Rai.[21] However, in October 2005,
Shankar and Rajinikanth announced that actress Shriya Saran would play the female lead
role.[22] Saran's voice was dubbed by actress Kanika, who was selected after a successful voice
test,[23] thereby collaborating for the second time with Shankar.[d] Actor Vivek was signed up for the
role of Sivaji's maternal uncle, Arivu, in November 2005.[24] Actress Sunaina made her acting debut
through this film in a special appearance; the scene however was later removed from the final
cut.[25][26] Nayantara, who had earlier worked with Rajinikanth in Chandramukhi, was signed up to
perform alongside Rajinikanth in the song "Baleilakka".[27][28]
Suman was confirmed in March 2006 to play the role of Adiseshan after Amitabh
Bachchan, Prakash Raj and Mohanlal were considered.[29] Sathyaraj, who acted with Rajinikanth
in Mr. Bharath (1986), said he declined the role because, "After a film of the calibre of Mr.
Bharath with Rajnikanth, I couldn't settle for anything less. So I didn't accept Sivaji."[30] For his role,
Suman removed his moustache and used dentures to make his smile visible.[31] Shankar instructed
one of the costume designers to give the character a spotless white dhoti, shirt, shoes,
a Rolex watch and Ray-Ban sunglasses.[31] Prior to this, Suman had acted with Rajinikanth
in Thee (1981).[32] Subbu Panchu Arunachalam, son of filmmaker Panchu Arunachalam, dubbed for
Suman.[33] Debate speakers Solomon Pappaiah and Pattimandram Raja were selected to play
supporting roles, with the latter making his cinematic acting
debut.[34][35][36] Vadivukkarasi and Manivannan were selected to play Sivaji's
parents.[37][38] Raghuvaran appeared in a small role as Dr. Chezhian.[5]
Shankar, who also wrote the film's story and screenplay,[39] was paid a then record salary
of ₹30 million (Indian rupees)[e] for the project.[41] A. R. Rahman, who was selected to compose the
film's soundtrack and background score, was also paid ₹30 million.[42][e] Sujatha Rangarajan was
assigned to write the dialogues for Sivaji.[39] Tha. Prabhu Raja Cholan, who would later direct the
film Karuppampatti (2013), worked as an assistant director in this film.[43] Rajinikanth's
daughter Soundarya worked as a graphics designer, creating the title for this film; she had earlier
worked in the same position on two of her father's films – Baba (2002)
and Chandramukhi (2005).[44] K. V. Anand was hired as the cinematographer in August
2005.[45] Manish Malhotra was responsible for designing the film's
costumes,[46] while Anthony and Thota Tharani were the editor and art director
respectively.[39] Additional make-up for Rajinikanth was done by make-up artist Banu.[47]
Filming[edit]
Principal photography commenced on 28 November 2005 with a puja at AVM Productions. The film's
launch was a secret event, with only pivotal members of the cast and crew being called for the
event's attendance.[24] The first schedule of Sivaji began on 14 December 2005 with the song "Vaaji
Vaaji" featuring Rajinikanth and Saran being shot at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad.[48][49] The idea of
shooting at Ramoji Film City was suggested to Shankar by Tharani who felt that the place offered a
lot of scope for him to utilise his skills and experience as an art director.[49] "Vaaji Vaaji" was
picturised with an intention to showcase a Babylonian palace setting when Shankar requested
Tharani to show "a palace with lots of colour".[49] Tharani created a four-storey Babylonian palace to
accommodate 80 dancers and 100 junior artists for the number.[50] Shooting of the number, which
according to K. V. Anand was filmed in Super 35 motion picture film format, was completed in eight
days.[51] G. Dhananjayan mentions in his book The Best of Tamil Cinema that ₹35 million[e]was spent
on the song's making.[52]
I decided to have a glass dome depicting four seasons. But Shankar was specific, saying he wanted the desert and
the flowers look. So, we decided to have desert on one side and rocks, waterfalls and flowers on the other.
— Thota Tharani, on his experience of designing the set for the "Sahana" number.[53]

Tharani described the set designing for the song "Sahana", which was also shot at Ramoji Film City,
as "extremely challenging".[53] After listening to the lyrics of the song which speaks of the four
traditional calendar seasons, Tharani thought of using a concept titled Living in Seasons, which he
used at a symposium held in Japan.[f] For the set's design which depicted the four seasons, Tharani
proposed three concepts – a traditional Japanese house, a contemporary house and a futuristic
house. Shankar chose the futuristic house concept, which consisted of three domes in the shapes of
a square, a circle and a pyramid adjacent to one another.[53] The circular dome had a pathway
around it and water falling from a 50 feet high rock, which would seep under the set. Tharani made
use of acrylic glass and normal glass with the former being implemented on the floor to make the
dance movements more easier to perform. Construction of the set for the number was completed in
30 days.[55]
In addition to these two songs, Tharani contributed to similar creations for the music store where
Tamizhselvi works as a saleswoman, the street surrounding the music store, the warehouse behind
the music store, the interior portions of Thamizhselvi's house and Adiseshan's office room.[54] The
music shop was designed in the Victorian architecture style, while the warehouse was constructed at
AVM Productions with the fight sequence being filmed there as well.[56] Filming of another action
sequence in an open-air theatre, which was also designed by Tharani, took place for approximately
15–20 days.[57] K. V. Anand used balloon lights brought from a French company Airstar Space
Lighting for the sequence.[57][58] The interior portions of Thamizhselvi's house was designed using
clippings of flats constructed by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board.[59]

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbaowhich features in "Style".[3]

The "Style" segment was filmed in May 2006 at the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim
Museum in Bilbao, Spain,[3][60] as well as the City of Arts and Sciences.[61] The fair look of Rajinikanth's
character in the segment was created using computer-generated imagery, which was performed
by V. Srinivas Mohan, the head of the Chennai-based firm Indian Artists. K. V. Anand re-shot every
single movement of Rajinikanth with a British woman named Jacky, who was also one of the song's
background dancers. All the shots featuring Rajinikanth in the song and those featuring Jacky were
scanned in 4K resolution to enhance their clarity after which Jacky's skin colour was digitally
implemented onto Rajinikanth's skin.[62] French hair-stylist Sandrin Veriar Seth designed two distinct
hair-styles for the entire film and 13 hair-styles for the segment alone.[63] To avoid disruptions that
could occur at the shooting spot due to Rajinikanth's fan following in Tamil
Nadu, Brinda choreographed "Balleilakka", Rajinikanth's introduction song sequence in Wai, a hill
station near Pune with 500 people for eight days.[28] To add more colour to the sequence, a 50-
member team of Puli Kali artists from Thrissur were employed by Shankar as background dancers.[64]
In November 2006, sequences featuring Rajinkanth, Saran and Vivek were shot at the Pune
Junction railway station.[65] Filming of a key portion involving Rajinikanth and Vivek took place in
the Victoria Public Hall building in Chennai.[66][67] A fight sequence and the song "Athiradi" were filmed
at Binny Mills. The sets for the song were made bearing resemblance to the city of Venice.[68] For the
climax scenes, which were filmed at the Magarpatta city SEZ towers, Rajinikanth tonsured his
head.[69][70] The scenes where Sivaji gets the money he transferred to his friends by forgery were
filmed in New York City.[71] The completion of those scenes in February 2007 marked the end of the
principal photography.[72] The climactic fight between Sivaji and Adiseshan was filmed at Vels
University.[73] K. V. Anand told Shobha Warrier of Rediff that the portions other than the songs and
action sequences were completed in 65 days.[74] For the film's dubbed Telugu version, Rajinikanth
reshot some scenes.[75]

Themes and influences[edit]

Many critics stated that the theme of Sivaji has been inspired from Shankar's previous
films Gentleman (1993) and Mudhalvan (1999).[76] The film deals with the concept of corruption and
money laundering and how the film's protagonist employs methods to get rid of those
elements.[77] Gopinath Rajendran of The New Indian Express compared the film's title character
to Robin Hood for being a hero "who takes from the rich and passes it on to the poor".[78]
Sivaji, who is a software engineer is frustrated with the corruption in India which is shown in the
scene where he watches the pitiable condition of poor people stating that: "The rich get richer, the
poor get poorer".[79] Sivaji's love for his country is also illustrated in a scene where he is advised by
his uncle to go back to abroad but he says "Where else will I go? This is home."[80]

Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Sivaji (soundtrack)
After some re-recording of the background score in Paraguay,[81] A.R. Rahman had been to London
for additional re-recording.[81][82]
A month and a half prior to the film's official soundtrack release, three songs from the soundtrack
were leaked into the Internet. The songs, however, were only unofficial with low quality, where the
official versions were composed slightly different and sung by different artists.[83][84][85]

Release[edit]
The television rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar TV for ₹40 million.[86] The film's distribution
rights, as distributed by AVM Productions to various companies are ₹35 million(US$490,000) for the
selling of rights to Kerala, ₹140 million (US$1.9 million) for Andhra Pradesh and ₹139.5
million (US$1.9 million) for the rights to Ayngaran, an international Tamil film distributor. The trailer
was released by CNN-IBN on 30 May 2007 lasting for three minutes.[87] The official trailer was
released by AVM to Galatta.com, the official online sponsor and Ayngaran International.[88] The film
was supposed to be released on the Tamil New Year's day, 14 April 2007,[17][89] but due to post-
production delays, the film was released worldwide on 15 June 2007.[90][91] On 15 July 2007, AVM
Productions, the producers of the film, announced their decision to dub the film into Hindi.[92][93] That
version was released on 14 January 2010.[91]
M. Satyamoorthy, on 9 July 2007, sought to stop the film being screened, claiming that it defamed
the Indian National Congress, a political party, as well as its president, Sonia Gandhi, and the
then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. Satyamoorthy cited a scene in which portraits of
Gandhi and Singh are visible behind Adiseshan's chair, implying that Adiseshan was a member of
the Indian National Congress.[94] Satyamoorthy also claimed ₹500 million (US$7.0 million) in
damages from the film's producer, director and lead actor to be paid to the Tamil Nadu section of the
party.[95] Jaya Rajadevan, one of the film's assistant directors, sought an injunction in civil court to
stop screening of the film for alleged plagiarism. Rajadevan claimed that he had written the film's
story and had discussed it with Shankar's manager in 2005.[96] Although the court sent notices to
Shankar, among others, the screening of the film was not stopped.[97]
Special screenings[edit]
Rajinikanth used his political affiliations to screen the film for several politicians. He went
to Hyderabad to showcase the film for the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Chandrababu
Naidu, on 14 June 2007.[98] At the screening, Rajinikanth told the media that he would invite the Chief
Minister, Rajasekhara Reddy, for a special viewing as well. Rajinikanth said that he had screened
the film to current and former Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers,
Dr. Karunanidhi[99] and Jayalalitha,[100] respectively, and that India's Finance Minister, P
Chidambaram, was also keen to watch the film.[99] A private screening was also shown to Amitabh
Bachchan.[101]
3D re-release[edit]
A 2012 re-release, also known as Sivaji 3D, was created by re-mastering the original to Dolby
Atmos and post-converting to 3D format and cutting half an hour of running time.[102]Sivaji 3D is the
first Indian film to be launched with the new Dolby Atmos platform.[96][103] The trailer of 3D version was
launched on 13 August 2012 at Prasad Labs along with Rajinikanth.[104] The 3D version released on
12 December 2012, coinciding with Rajinikanth's birthday.[96][105] The runtime of 3D version was
shorter than original, cut to two hours and thirty-five minutes.[106]

Box office[edit]
The theatrical rights of the film were sold for ₹26 million (US$360,000)[107] in Kerala and ₹80
million (US$1.1 million) in Andhra Pradesh. Worldwide, the film was estimated to have been
released in about 750 screens.[18] The film opened to virtually full cinemas.[108] Sivaji was released in
303 screens in Tamil Nadu, 300 screens in Andhra Pradesh; 12 screens in North India and 145
screens across the rest of the world.[18][109] It was released in 16 screens in Chennai and
grossed ₹13.5 million (US$190,000) within the first four days, at that point a new record
for Tamil cinema. The film also debuted well in Kerala and in Bangalore. Despite protests from pro-
Kannada groups, the film debuted in 13 screens.[110] In the national capital, New Delhi, the film
debuted on 4 screens in PVR Cinemas.[111] Based on what the distributors claim, there was
"overwhelming response to the film", with the number of screens increasing to 12 by the second
week.[112] The film made a good debut in the nation's other metros as well such
as Mumbai[110] and Kolkata,[113] as well as in other non-traditional markets for Tamil films such as
Pune[114] and Baroda.[115] The film grossed ₹ 40.7 million[116] in two weeks; ₹ 85 million in five
weeks,[117] and ₹ 100 million in seven weeks in Chennai.[118]
Sivaji was also successful in international markets. The film had a wide release with over 145 prints
and in 200 theatres (Tamil Version alone) in over 20 countries across South East Asia, Europe,
North America, GCC and Australia and others, one of the widest release for an Indian film in the
international markets. Internationally, Sivaji had good screenings in Malaysia.[119][120] grossing over
US$2 million in Malaysia,[121] Sivaji made a debut with 150 shows in Singapore.[122] In Sri Lanka, the
film debuted across 70 screens with all 700 shows virtually sold out.[123] In the Persian Gulf that
contains a sizeably large Indian diaspora, the film opened to a good response.[124] The film has
collected over $8.5 Million from the overseas markets.
In Canada, the film released in 10 screens in 3 major cities along with special screenings for the
Tamil diaspora in the smaller cities.[125] In United Kingdom, the film debuted on the box-office list at
No.9 with earnings of about £14,000 per screen and was the first Tamil film to enter UK Top 10. In
United States, Sivaji was released in 24 screens with subsequent additions of 19 and 21 screens for
the Tamil version and Telugu version respectively.[126] The producers of the film claimed that the film
was going to be dubbed in Chinese and Japanese by Ayngaran International, the holder of
international rights of the film.[92] The response in Cape Town was disappointing, while the box-office
collections in Johannesburgand Durban allowed it to become the first Tamil film to feature in the
South African box-office top 10.[127] Singapore Airlines bought a 3-month exclusive in-flight screening
rights to the film, a first for the airline for any Tamil film.[128]
In the UK, 13 seconds of the film was cut.[129] The original film showed Rajinikanth throwing a
firecracker into his mouth, lighting it and then spitting it out at Pattimanram Raja, which was removed
to give the film a 12A rating, The Ayngaran UK DVD release was uncut and given an 18 rating by
the BBFC. It was also the first Tamil film to be officially released on a 1080p High Definition Blu-
ray disc.[130]
The overseas distributor Ayngaran International reported collections as follows: US$2,000,000,
Canada $500,000, UK$750,000, Europe and Gulf $750,000, Malaysia $2,000,000, Singapore
$750,000, Sri Lanka $1,250,000, Australia, New Zealand & Thailand $250,000.[131] Sivaji was
released in South Africa in late July 2007 after six weeks of its release by the leading South African
distributor Ster Kinekor with four prints and released in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.[132][133]

Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu, in a review about the story, said that the lead character carrying
out a rebellion against corruption was something "not be true to life". She concluded by saying that
"the story sags towards the end". She, however, appreciated the performances of the prominent
actors, the soundtrack, art direction, photography and the animation.[134] Ananth Krishnan, another
review from The Hindu, a month after the film's release, said that the film "... presents an effective
diagnosis of entrenched corruption but the rather disturbing remedy it offers is, good old vigilantism."
It concluded by saying that, though the film did well at the box-office, the message of rejecting the
corrupt system instead of reforming it was troubling.[135] T. S. V. Hari of Hindustan Times said that the
director, Shankar, was not creative enough for the film and added this by saying "Sivaji turns out to
be a rehash of all his previous jingoistic claptrap efforts". It appreciated the other technical
departments and suggested a good response at the box office.[136] The Times of India had a similar
review about the story saying that "it had nothing new to offer" but promised it to be entertaining and
gave it four stars.[137]
R G Vijayasarathy of Rediff.com summed the film by saying, "No logic, only Rajni's magic". About
the story, he said, "Unfortunately, (the) message is lost in the maze of illogical and sometimes
absurd sequences". The review, however, praised the performances of Rajinikanth, Shriya and
Vivek and the technical crew.[138] Sify wrote: "There is only one hero here, [..] – Rajni himself. Such is
the overpowering screen presence of his cinematic charisma in every frame of the film. The film
works big time as Shankar has made the film on a grand scale, [..] which is a visual treat with
superbly choreographed action scenes. All this comes with top-of-the line techno-finesse, perhaps
the best ever in Tamil cinema" and also wrote that "Technically, [..] a revelation [..] there are
stunning visuals, which is paisa vasool. K.V.Anand's cinematography is top class. Art director Thotta
Tharani work is enticing, especially the sets in songs".[76]
Accolades[edit]
2007 National Film Awards[139]

 Won – Silver Lotus Award for Best Special Effects – M.S. Indian
Artists, Chennai
2008 Filmfare Awards South[140]

 Won – Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – A.R. Rahman

 Won – Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer – K. V. Anand
 Won – Filmfare Best Art Director Award – Thotta Tharani
 Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Rajinikanth
 Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Film – Sivaji
 Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer
Female – Chinmayi
2007 Vijay Awards[141]

 Won – Vijay Award for Favourite Hero – Rajinikanth

 Nominated – Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine – Shriya Saran
 Won – Vijay Award for Best Music Director – A.R. Rahman
 Nominated – Best Playback Singer Female – Chinmayi[142]
 Nominated – Best Playback Singer Male – Udit Narayan
2007 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards [143]

 Won- Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film – First Prize

Notes[edit]
1. ^ The Economic Times claims the budget to be 600 million.[1] The
Telegraph estimated it to be 700 million,[2] while India Today claimed it
to be 780 million.[3]
2. ^ The Kanjira, Khanjira or Ganjira, a South Indian frame drum, is an
instrument of the tambourine family.
3. ^ Not counting other language films.[18]
4. ^ Kanika had earlier dubbed for Sadha in Anniyan (2005).[23]
5. ^ Jump up to:a b c The average exchange rate in 2007 was
39.33 Indian rupees (₹) per 1 US dollar (US$).[40]
6. ^ The Hindu gives the year the symposium was held as
1991,[54] while Rediff.com states the year to be 1992.[53]

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