Virumandikum Sivanandikum

Virumandikum Sivanandikum
Poster
Directed by	Vincent Selva
Written by	Vincent Selva J. R. Rooban (dialogues)
Starring	Sanjay Arundhati Nair
Cinematography	S. K. Mitchell
Edited by	Maruthi Krish
Music by	R. Devarajan
Production company	Lakshmi Talkies
Distributed by	4O Studios
Release date	25 November 2016 (2016-11-25)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Virumandikum Sivanandikum (transl. For Virumandi and Sivanandi) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language comedy-drama film directed by Vincent Selva and starring debutante Sanjay and Arundhati Nair with Thambi Ramaiah in an important role. The film was dubbed in Hindi as Royal Treat.^[1]

Plot[]

Shiva, who is not interested a government job, does business with his friend. They borrow money from an evil moneylender and pay back the money with interest. Shiva and his friend end up in money issues, A director, Ganduchamy, who is a fraud, makes a movie with Shiva as the protagonist, his friend as the antagonist, and a woman, Nandhini, as the female protagonist. He promises to give Shiva six lakhs for acting in the film. Vincent Selva works as the cameraman for the film. The director shoots the film without Nandhini knowing that she is a part of the film. After shooting for the film, Shiva falls in love with Nandhini. Sivanandi, the head of a village, finds out that Shiva was part of a film with Nandhini, a girl who ran away from her village, after Vincent Selva posts the film on YouTube. Nandhini's father, Virumandi is the head of Sivanandi's rival village. How the rival villages solve their problems and whether or not Shiva will reunite with Nandhini form the rest of the story.

Cast[]

Soundtrack[]

Soundtrack was composed by R. Devarajan.^[2]

• "Palapalakkudhu" - Velmurugan
• "Kottudhu Kottudhu" - Prasanna, Chinmayi
• "Ullankai Adikkudhu" - Haricharan, Priyanka
• "Parayadikkudhu Machan" - Priyanka

Release[]

The Times of India Samayam gave the film a rating of three out of five stars. The reviewer praised the title and Thambi Ramaiah's performance while criticizing certain dialogues and illogical scenes.^[3] A critic from Vikatan criticized the tile stating that it has little reference to the film and the lack of entertaining comedy scenes.^[4] Maalai Malar praised the performances of the lead cast and Thambu Ramaiah while criticizing the amount of comedy sequences that have no relevance to the film.^[5] Kungumam praised the performances of the lead cast, Thambi Ramaiah, and the comedy artists while stating the cinematography is mediocre.^[6]

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