| Crew |
| Genre: |
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| Type: |
Dubbing (Tamil) |
| Banner: |
AVM Productions |
| Story, screenplay, and direction: |
S. Shankar |
| Producer (in Telugu): |
Bellamkonda Suresh |
| Producer (original): |
M.S. Guhan, M. Saravanan, and S.P. Muthuraman |
| Choreography: |
Prabhudeva, Lawrence Raghavendhra, and Raju Sundaram |
| Music: |
A.R. Rahman |
| Cinematography: |
K.V. Anand |
| Dialogues: |
Sree Ramakrishna |
| Story: |
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| Art: |
Thota Tharani |
| Editor: |
Anthony |
| Action: |
Peter Hein |
| Costume Designer: |
Manish Malhotra |
| Sound Mixer: |
Abe Dolinger |
| Digital Colorist: |
Ken Metzker |
| Assistant Directors: |
J.D. Jerry, Balaji Saktivel, Hosimin, and Gandhi Krishna |
| Release Date: |
June 15, 2007 |
| Cast |
| Rajnikanth (Hero) |
Shivaji |
| Shreya (Heroine) |
Tamizh |
| Suman (villain) |
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| Raghuvaran |
lawyer |
| Prakash Raj |
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| Vivek |
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| Nayanthara |
Special Appearance |
| Manivannan |
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| Raju sundaram |
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| Kanal Kannan |
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| Revathi Menon |
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| MS Bhaskar |
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| Livingston |
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| Kannal Kannan |
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| Vadivukarasi |
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| Pyramid Natarajan |
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| Uma Padmanabhan |
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| Pattimanram Raja |
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| Salaman Papaiya |
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| Prabu |
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| Mayilswamy |
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| Chinni Jayanth |
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| Shankar |
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| Song |
Singers |
Lyrics |
| Balleilakka |
S.P. Balasubramanyam, Raihanath, Benny & Chorus |
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| Style |
Rags, Ranvi, Suresh Peters, Blaaze |
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| Vaaji Vaaji |
Hariharan, Madhusree & Chorus |
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| Adharanee |
A.R. Rahman, Sayanora |
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| Sahana |
Udit Narayan, Chinmayi |
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| The Boss |
Blaaze, Naresh Iyer, Raqueb Alam |
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| Sahara |
Vijay Yesudas, Gomathi Sree & Chorus |
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Story
Shivaji, the film, opens with thousands of crowds waiting outside a court hall. A man named Shivaji is brought to the court by CBI and Police officers. Fearing the public outrage, the police officers mask his face. Sivaji is sent to jail. In the prison, co-prisoner asks Shivaji what offence he did – murder, rape, filming pornography or running chit fund company and bankrupting it? Shivaji turns and shows his face – that is Rajnikanth – and says “I tried making our country better.”
After the titles roll, it is shown that Shivaji (Rajnikanth), a software analyst, returns to India from USA and wants to setup Shivaji Foundation with Rs 200 Crores. He also falls in love with traditional Telugu girl (Shhriya) and wants to marry her. On the other hand, he meets another businessman Adiseshu (Suman) and seeks help from him in setting up colleges that provides free education and general hospitals. Fearing that Shivaji’s charity plan might hamper his business interests, Suman uses all the power to stop Shivaji’s plans. He conspires against him and makes him pauper. Out of jail, Sivaji hatches a plan to unearth all the black money of Suman and also from other business men and do it for good cause. The rest of the film is how Shivaji takes revenge on Adiseshu.
Trivia
- Sivaji is AVM production’s 168th venture.
- For Superstar RajiniKanth, Sivaji is his 9th movie with AVM productions.
- For director Shankar this is his 9th movie in his directional career and first movie with AVM productions.
- Superstar’s Rajinikanth’s lucky number is nine.
- This movie bears the title Sivaji after the name of the legend of Tamil cinema Shivaji Ganesan who started his career in Tamil cinema through the movie Parasakthi which was AVM productions.
- Superstar’s real name is Sivaji Rao Gaekwad.
- Sivaji is the 100th Tamil movie for Rajinikanth.
- The Telugu right is handed over to the producer Bellam Konda Suresh for 14 crores. This does not include Audio and satellite rights.
- Rajini has sung a song in this movie which is his second attempt of playback singing.
