Sandamarutham

Sandamarutham
Directed by	A. Venkatesh
Produced by	R. Sarathkumar Raadhika Sarathkumar Listin Stephen
Written by	Rajesh Kumar (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Rajesh Kumar
Story by	R. Sarathkumar
Starring	R. Sarathkumar Meera Nandan Oviya
Music by	James Vasanthan
Cinematography	N. S. Uthayakumar
Edited by	V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Magic Frames
Release dates	20 February 2015
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Sandamarutham is an 2015 Tamil action thriller film directed by A. Venkatesh which has Sarath Kumar in dual lead roles who also written the story of the film. First time playing the roles of Protagonist and Antagonist himself in celluloid. The film also has Oviya, Meera Nandan and Samuthirakani in the cast. The film, produced by Radhika Sarathkumar, commenced shoot from May 2014. The film opened to positive reviews.

Plot

The movie begins with an investigation of a girl who has been dead along with a small vessel. That small vessel is actually a weapon as it contains explosive chemicals (a bomb named "Ophalaska") with its changing colours. Now comes the quarreling between two gangs, in which one gang is headed by Sarveshwaran ( R. Sarath Kumar ). He lives in Kumbakonam along with his men. Another scene opens in Pollachi, where Surya (also R. Sarath Kumar ) is an unemployed youth. He lives in a bungalow with his joint family. Maha ( Meera Nandan ) falls in love with Surya. Surya sees a metal sheet written in Chinese language. When he magnifies that, he sees Chinese script along with some Tamil words. Sarveshwaran starts talking to the portrait of his mother who is no longer alive. He then reveals his childhood story. Sarveshwaran is the son of a handicapped woman who is a florist. He sees so many kids wearing wrist-watches, buying lollipops, etc. He asks his mother for the money so that he can also do the same things what the kids do regularly. He is the student of a corporation school. He also asks his mother to get him admitted in a government school so that he can learn to speak English. His mother pleads to principal of government school to enroll him in that school. But, the principal denies it and he accidentally pushes his mother from the balcony, resulting in her death. Sarveshwaran kills the principal the same way the principal killed Sarveshwaran's mother. Now comes the present, in which Sarveshwaran assures his mother that he'll earn a lot of money. He's then revealed to be a terrorist. Thirumalai is a cop who investigates a lorry which contains a lot of small vessels that explosive chemicals with its changing colours. This lorry actually belongs to Sarveshwaran. Thirumalai gets confused to see hospital getting converted into a lodge, injured men suddenly getting recovered. He learns that it is all because of Sarveshwaran. Selvam(Arun Sagar),who is one of Sarveshwaran's men, stabs Thirumalai. In spite of stabbing, he survives that and calls Surya for help. Surya suddenly gets shocked seeing Thirumalai dead. Surya is then revealed to be an undercover cop. He decides to foil all the plans made by Sarveshwaran to destroy the whole India using a bomb called WHI (We Hate India, planned to keep bomb in 101 various places of India). Surya also finds the matter that Sarveshwaran has made contacts with Chinese terrorists for helping him so that India is no more. Surya, along with other three undercover cops, go to Sarveshwaran's house and kill his two men. Sarveshwaran, in order to exact his revenge, kidnaps the whole family of Surya, in which Maha is included. A very few members from Surya's family is killed by Sarveshwaran. Surya keeps Selvam under his custody. When Surya and other three undercover cops along with Selvam go to Sarveshwaran's lair, Surya is left alive while the other four who came with him are killed. He saves his kidnapped family after beating Sarveshwaran's men to death. He also sees Maha being tied there with a timer bomb. Surya then confronts Sarveshwaran. An ensuing fight goes between both of them. After Surya defeats Sarveshwaran, Sarveshwaran falls unconscious. Surya deactivates the bomb and saves Maha. He suddenly sees Sarveshwaran missing. When he goes in search for him along with Maha, Sarveshwaran suddenly flies stabs Surya in his stomach. But Surya somehow survives the stab and shoots Sarveshwaran dead. And, in the end, he gets admitted to hospital.

Cast

• R. Sarath Kumar as Surya,the protagonist and Sarveshwaran, the main antagonist
• Meera Nandan as Maha, Surya's love interest
• Oviya as Minmini / Rekha
• Radha Ravi as Rangarajan
• Samuthirakani as Thirumalai
• Venniradai Moorthy as Punnaikodi
• Thambi Ramaiah as Nirakulathan
• Kadhal Dhandapani as Dhandapani
• G. M. Kumar
• Mohan V. Raman as Subramani, Maha's father
• George Maryan as Kuppan
• Delhi Ganesh as Surya's father
• Nalini as Surya's mother
• Rekha Suresh as Maha's mother
• Santhana Bharathi as Magistrate
• M. N. K. Nadesan as Nadesan
• Karate Raja as Baskar
• Gana Ulaganathan
• Supergood Kannan
• Imman Annachi as Murugan
• Vincent Asokan as Thamarai Chandran
• Singampuli as Mayilu
• Arun Sagar as Selvam
• Ramkumar as Prakash
• Aadhavan as Aadhavan
• Baboos as Namasivayam
• Ammu Apsara as Thirumalai's wife
• Mannara (Special appearance)
• Ramaprakash as Vincent asokan assistant

Production

The film was launched on 14 May 2014 and shooting began thereafter. Reports had initially suggested that Lakshmi Rai would be the film's lead actress, though she was later replaced by Malayalam actress Sarayu and Avani Modi, who had previously appeared in Naan Rajavaga Pogiren (2013). Both actresses were present during the launch of the film but were replaced later with Oviya and Meera Nandan. Kannada actor Arun Sagar was selected to play one of the negative roles thus making his acting debut in Tamil.

The film marks the fourth collaboration between A. Venkatesh and Sarathkumar. Sarathkumar has written the story while Rajeshkumar who is known for crime based novels has written the screenplay and dialogues.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack of the film was composed by James Vasanthan. Audio Launch event was held at Chennai on 14 Dec 2014. Namitha, Dhanush, Vikram Prabhu, Vimal, KS Ravikumar, Radha Ravi, Vijayakumar, A Venkatesh, Abirami Ramanathan, AL Alagappan, G.Siva, Madhan Karky, Sripriya, Lissy Priyadharshan, Santhana Bharathi, Mayilsamy, James Vasanthan, AL Vijay, Nirav Shah, Kalaipuli S Thanu, Mohan Raman, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, RK Selvamani, Bharath, V Sekar, K Rajan, RB Choudary.Ramki, Nirosha, Bobby Simha, Manobala, Listin Stephen, Suseenthiran, Mohan, Naren participated in the event.

• Paarthu Konde - Sathyaprakash, Saindhavi
• Dummangoli - Gana Ulaganathan, AV Pooja
• Sandamarutham - James Vasanthan, Jithin Raj
• Unnai Mattum - Sarathkumar, Cassandra Premji

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV.

External links

• Sandamarutham at IMDb