''Sabari'' is a 2007 Indian

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directed by

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. It stars

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as the title character with

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, Malavika and

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in supporting roles. The film was released on 17 March 2007 to mixed reviews.

Plot

Sabarivasan (Vijayakanth) is a doctor by profession and cannot tolerate injustice by any means. Nandhini (Jyothirmayi), a college student, meets Sabari and falls in love with him. Eventually they both get married. Vajravelu (Rawat) is a local criminal working for a minister ( Mahadevan). Vajravelu's brother-in-law Ezhumalai (

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) is arrested by the police for a brutal murder. While trying to escape on the way to court, he is shot by a policeman. Vajravelu's henchmen take Ezhumalai to Sabari and force him to operate. Sabari removes the bullet, but he beats up all the henchmen and produces Ezhumalai to the police. Ezhumalai is sentenced to death and is hanged. Vajravelu is angry and vows revenge. Vajravelu comes out on bail and kills Sabari's father (

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). He also kidnaps Nandhini. Sabari fights against Vajravelu and saves Nandhini. On the way back to the hospital, Sabari is stabbed by Vajravelu's wife (

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). Vajravelu and his henchmen arrive and injure Sabari. They leave thinking Sabari is dead, but he is saved and admitted to hospital. Knowing this, Vajravelu comes in search of Sabari. Sabari fights them back and kills Vajravelu.

Cast

Production

The film was launched at AVM Studios in 2006. Shooting was done at locations in India including

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and

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. Songs for the film were shot in

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Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by

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Critical reception

''Indiaglitz'' wrote, "It's Vijayakanth all the way who with his brainy and brawny ways restores order in the society." ''Behindwoods'' wrote, "All in all, disappointing is too kind a word to use for this kind of a movie. It is hard to imagine what the director, actor and producer had in mind when the movie was made." It summed up, "Sabari: an absolute dud." ''The hindu'' wrote "Now having said all these you can only add that Vijayakanth could have gone in for an innovative storyline, far removed from the run-of-the-mill rut". Lajjavathi praised Vijayakanth for doing an action film without politics and praised Suresh for racy screenplay and called Pattukottai Prabhakar's dialogues as sharp but felt if Malavika's portions, unnecessary songs were removed and some of the plots were trimmed, this ''Sabari'' would have been talked about even more.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title 2000s Indian films 2000s masala films 2000s Tamil-language films 2007 action films 2007 films Films scored by Mani Sharma Films shot in Chennai Films shot in Hong Kong Indian action films Tamil-language Indian films