Sandamarutham

Sandamarutham (2015)

Sandamarutham is an age old story of an honest cop and his mission against a deadly villain, the only silver lining here is that Sarath Kumar has played both the villain and hero. Sarveswaran (Sarath Kumar) is a deadly don in Kumbakonam and he runs the underworld chemical bomb business to devastate the entire country. Mean time, we are shown another Sarath Kumar (Suriya) who is an undercover cop and he gets to know the real side through his honest cop friend Thirumalai (Samuthira Kani) who was murdered by the same chemical bomb. On his mission Suriya also encounters RR (Radharavi) who is a close friend of Sarveshwaran. The rest of the story tells how Suriya knocks down Sarveswaran.

Date of release
2015-02-20
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 29m
Genres
Family, Action, Drama
Director
A. Venkatesh

Casting

Interesting facts

Sandamarutham (transl. Arena) is a 2015 Tamil-language action thriller film directed by A. Venkatesh which has R. Sarathkumar in dual roles and who also written the story of the film. This is his first time playing dual roles of the hero and villain. The film also has Oviya, Meera Nandan, and Samuthirakani in supporting roles. The film, produced by Radhika, commenced shooting from May 2014 and was released on 20 February 2015.

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.

The film marks the fourth collaboration between A. Venkatesh and Sarathkumar. Sarathkumar has written the story while crime writer Rajesh Kumar has written the screenplay and dialogue.

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