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''Saayvar Thirumeni'' () is a 2001 Indian
Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...
-language
action drama In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-gen ...
film directed by
Shajoon Karyal Shajoon Kariyal is an Indian film director and producer working in Malayalam cinema. Life Shajoon started his film career in 1984, at the age of 21, as an assistant director to I. V. Sasi. He worked as the assistant or associate director ...
and written by Robin Thirumala. It features
Suresh Gopi Suresh Gopi (born 26 June 1958) is an Indian actor, politician, playback singer and television presenter. He works predominantly in Malayalam cinema and has also appeared in some Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bollywood films. Suresh made his acti ...
, Manoj K. Jayan,
Samyuktha Varma Samyuktha Varma (born 26 November 1979) is a former Indian actress who was active in Malayalam films from 1999 to 2002. She made her debut in 1999 as female lead in the movie '' Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal'' for which she won her first Kerala ...
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Narendra Prasad Raghava Kurup Narendra Prasad (26 December 1946 3 November 2003) was an Indian actor, playwright, director, teacher and literary critic. He was born at Mavelikkara in the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore. Appreciated for his body language and ...
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Nedumudi Venu Kesavan Venugopal (22 May 1948 – 11 October 2021), better known by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor and screenwriter from Kerala, who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 500 films, primarily in Ma ...
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Jagathy Sreekumar Sreekumar P. K. (born 5 January 1951), better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar or simply Jagathy, is an Indian actor, director and playback singer, who has appeared in over 1500 Malayalam films in a career spanning almost four decad ...
, Sangeetha Mohan, and K. P. A. C. Lalitha. The music was composed by
Raveendran Madhavan Raveendran ( ml, മാധവൻ രവീന്ദ്രൻ ), (born Kulathupuzha, Kollam, 9 November 1943 – died Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 3 March 2005), fondly known as ''Raveendran Master'', was a popular South Indian music composer an ...
. The plot revolves around Devadatthan (Suresh Gopi), a
Namboothiri The Nambudiri (), also transliterated as Nampoothiri, Nambūdiri, Namboodiri, Nampoothiri, and Nampūtiri, are a Malayali Brahmin caste, native to what is now the state of Kerala, India, where they constituted part of the traditional feudal el ...
youth. This movie is dubbed in Telugu as ''Dhairyavanthudu'' and in Hindi as ''Jung ka maidan''.


Synopsis

Mazhamangalath Narayanan Namboothirippadu is the head of a prestigious Mazhamangalam family. His elder son is Mazhamangalath Kunjikuttan and younger son is Mazhamangalath Devadathan Namboothirippadu, popularly known as Saayvar Thirumeni. His friends are Kunjappu and Neelakandan who believe Saayvar more than anyone else. Saayvar looks after their estate at Kunthapuram in Karnataka and people there call him Saayvar Thirumeni, out of respect and love. One day Narayanan was honoured by the villagers for winning the Kendra Sahithya academy award. One of the elephants named Ganeshan turns violent but is calmed down by Saayvar. He is appreciated by the villagers for saving the people from the violent pachyderm. Saayvar knows from his friend Kunjappu that the elephant was turned violent by their family rivals. Saayvar goes to meet them and gives them a final warning. Later he goes to church where he meets his friend Fr. Kuruvithadam along with orphans. Even as a Brahmin, Saayvar looks after the orphans. Saayvar sings a melodious Christian song to the orphans. He meets Annie at the church. Annie is the daughter of Fr. Kuruvithadam's brother. Annie has come to that village to learn Kathakali. Saayvar's sister Bhaama is also a student at the school. Annie and Saayvar quarrel at the beginning. As the story moves forward Annie learns from Fr. Kuruvithadam that the orphans were looked after by Saayvar which leads her to fall in love with him. She learns more about him from Bhaama. The next scene shows Saayvar meeting his cousin Mithran. Mithran seeks help from Saayvar to save him and his friend Saam from Paappa. Saayvar once saved Paappa from an accident and they friends. Mithran cheated Paappa in their business deal and Saayvar was unaware of this. Saayvar sets out with Kunjappu and Neelakandan to solve the issue with Paappa. On the way Paappa's goons attack Mithran, but Saayvar fights back and goes to meet Paappa at home. Saayvar solves the issue, but Mithran quarrels with Paappa again which ends the friendship of Paappa and Saayvar. Paappa warns Saayvar not to believe Mithran but he does not want to mistrust his cousin. Mithran's aim is to destroy Saayvar's family as his mother (Saayvar's father's sister) was sent out of their family for loving a man of another caste. Also during their childhood, Saayvar caught Mithran stealing their family goddess's statue which leads Mithran to run away. Mithran wanted to avenge this. He finds a photo of Saayavar along with a girl named Sreekutty. This is shown to Narayanan by Mithran and when asked about it Saayvar lies that he does not know who the girl is. He is beaten up by Narayanan and sent out from the family. This breaks his relationship with Annie. Later it is proven that Sreekutty was actually Narayanan's daughter who was born to his lover Martha during Narayanan's youth. Saayavar was keeping this a secret as he has given his word to Martha that he will never tell anyone. Saayvar kept his word. At the same time Mithran plays many foul games to destroy the family. He plans to kill Sreekutty and blame Annie's brothers. He kills Saayvar's brother Kunjikuttan. At last it is revealed that Mithran was behind the problems. Saayvar fights Mithran. Mithran is killed by Kunjikuttan's elephant and the family is reunited.


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* {{IMDb title, tt0318650 2001 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Indian action drama films Films directed by Shajoon Kariyal Films scored by Raveendran